You might argue the difference is that the information that Aaron was after was already paid for with public money. The OSVDB sounds like it is a bunch of people who aren't otherwise paid to maintain this information.
>You might argue the difference is that the information that Aaron was after was already paid for with public money.
This is naive. Just because research is backed by public money doesn't mean the publications are automatically free to the public. If your argument was valid, you could use it to demand access to the emails of every FBI employee. Just because something is funded by the public doesn't automatically make every component of it open to the public.
