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Which is really annoying if they are funded, even partially, by the government.
by Esau 10y ago
Which is really annoying if they are funded, even partially, by the government.
- rayiner 10y agoJust because a VC funds your company, should it own everything you make? And the government encourages the practice. Both because it reduces funding requirements, and because it creates an incentive for professors and students to take the IP and commercialize it.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act
- wolfgke 10y agoWhere is the difference between transferring copyright to the FSF and selling IP (including transferring copright) to some commercial vendor?
- Ar-Curunir 10y agoNot exactly the university's fault if state keeps cutting funding.