Cool idea, but the amount of knowledge needed to grow crops successfully doesn't really boil down to a 'how to' format. Are you trying to be organic? Did you get a soil test? What sort of pests are there in your area? How many hours of sun does your plot have?
Point being, there are lots of common skills and local knowledge.
Maybe not scalable to industrial processes, but it scales in time. A cutting can easily create a tree of the size that a seedling would take 3-5 years grow.
I would argue that they don't serve National Security, they threaten it. These cloud providers are selling the government on being their secret keepers, which secures them against regulation.
This thread has some serious brigading going on. University man doesn't like changing cultural norms, engages in bad faith actions to make those norms look ridiculous. People treat him like a pariah for doing it, and his work satisfaction suffers.
It seems to me, not knowing this man personally, that he has taken the example of Socrates to heart. Believe so completely in an ideal, that you seal your own fate.
Contracts are written up front for two plus years of work. Waterfall. The DoD and contractors pretend to do agile in the middle by running everything through sprints, even though you can't change the plan. Water-agile-fall
Why you should give away your work for free... Don't listen. If you make something and want to share it with others, do so. But do it because you want to, not because some blog post guilt trips you into it.
Point being, there are lots of common skills and local knowledge.