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>Private ventures can also easily pair up with universities to have the public pay the bill and then get IP protections over the innovation and sell it themselv

by daenz 7y ago

>Private ventures can also easily pair up with universities to have the public pay the bill and then get IP protections over the innovation and sell it themselves Can you elaborate more on how that works? Seems like something that should be illegal.

emiliobumachar 7y ago
"It is common today for university researchers to get grants to develop a system, develop it nearly to the point of completion and call that “finished,” and then start companies where they really finish the project and make it usable. Sometimes they declare the unfinished version “free”; if they are thoroughly corrupt, they instead get an exclusive license from the university. This is not a secret; it is openly admitted by everyone concerned." https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf