这是IELTS12 Test5的一个话题，题目主要是讲分享信息的重要性讨论，我列举了我在科研上遇到的信息分享的问题，并鼓励大家进行分享，当然，有很多人处于种种原因，不愿意进行分享，我们要尊重他们，不能责怪他们。还有一些人打着分享的名号进行商业信息窃取等违规活动，这是要尽力不免的。
Topic
Some people believe that it is good to share as much information as possible in scientific research, business and the academic world. Others believe that some information is too important or too valuable to shared freely.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
My writing
With the development of science and technology, the world that we are living is better and better now. However, on the background of Big Data and free access of the Internet, information becomes a vital necessity to every professional people, whoever you are, a researcher, a businessman, or a politician, you can be successful if you have enough information. But we can’t force everyone to share his or her information, we should encourage this kind behavior.
I can’t agree with the people more that it is good to share as much information as possible in any areas. Let me give you an example in detail, in terms of scientific search in computer science, every time I read journals, I was eager to know more about the experiments that the journals mentioned, usually, I would send an email to the author, some warmhearted researchers would give me give me necessary guidance and the source code of the experiment; but there exists a number of people who refused my requests for the detail of the experiment, which made me feel sad at that moment. I felt strongly grateful for the people who did me a favor, at the same time., I felt a bit disappointed for the people who denied my requests. In most cases, sharing information with other people is not only good for the other related people, but also promote the prosperity of this research area, which is even potentially good for the individual in return.
I have to admit that some information is too important to be shared freely. Perhaps you have your own purposes. You spend years retaining the information and resources, it is comprehensible for you not to share the resources, to some extent, it’s your fortune. It’s okay to preserve their intelligent property, trade secrets and so on, and we should not interfere their behaviors. But if the information is very useful for non-profit organizations or individuals, I am wondering whether you can share some of information by negotiating with each other.
In the end, sharing information is a kind of virtue, we should encourage such kind behavior, what we can’t bear is that some people will steal the commercial value in the name of sharing. I encourage people not to be selfish, and don’t let sharing information become a tool to doing something evil.
