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speaking of getting tied up.. I wonder how this program applies to MIT's intellectual property policy: http://web.mit.edu/policies/13/13.1.html http://web.mit.e

speaking of getting tied up.. I wonder how this program applies to MIT's intellectual property policy: http://web.mit.edu/policies/13/13.1.html http://web.mit.edu/policies/13/13.1.html Quote: ownership of Intellectual Property developed by faculty, students, staff, and others participating in MIT programs, including visitors, with the significant use of funds or facilities administered by MIT will vest with MIT. From my reading of the policy.. it sounds like if you accept this small sum (1-5K), MIT gets the IP rights to everything you make. Good deal for MIT. If they own the name (trademark) of your project; the content on your website and marketing materials; copyright on your code; patents... you're basically working for MIT for $1k.

massemphasis 11y ago
MIT is toxic. I respect they supposedly have some good engineers coming out of that place, but I don't think as a school they offer much compared to Stanford, USC, etc... Most American schools are now trying to capitalize as well and attempting to beat corporations to the punch in exploiting their students, so it might be a bit unfair to just isolate MIT for that kind of toxic behavior. Just look at their students debts for example, or "acceptance rates". That metric is abused to justify prestige in a failing educational system whose output can barely compete with _middle schoolers_ of truly developed countries, and even developing countries like China. Stanford for example has this little lottery where they select some poor bastard with chops to market themselves as a merit based school which is hilarious. If you look at MIT, and other American schools' prestige in the global arena and take into account the state of their educational system, they are a bunch of hoaxers and fraudsters. The meat of the quality of the output of American higher education is from the strength of foreign students, and not from American systems.

massemphasis 11y ago

MIT is toxic. I respect they supposedly have some good engineers coming out of that place, but I don't think as a school they offer much compared to Stanford, USC, etc... Most American schools are now trying to capitalize as well and attempting to beat corporations to the punch in exploiting their students, so it might be a bit unfair to just isolate MIT for that kind of toxic behavior. Just look at their students debts for example, or "acceptance rates". That metric is abused to justify prestige in a failing educational system whose output can barely compete with _middle schoolers_ of truly developed countries, and even developing countries like China. Stanford for example has this little lottery where they select some poor bastard with chops to market themselves as a merit based school which is hilarious. If you look at MIT, and other American schools' prestige in the global arena and take into account the state of their educational system, they are a bunch of hoaxers and fraudsters. The meat of the quality of the output of American higher education is from the strength of foreign students, and not from American systems.