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> Progress doesn’t happen automatically when the scientific or technical prerequisites for it are in place. It only happens when people work on it, and that alm
by smitty1e 7y ago
> Progress doesn’t happen automatically when the scientific or technical prerequisites for it are in place. It only happens when people work on it, and that almost always requires funding.
This is among the reasons why, for all I love free software, it tends not to be a driver of innovation.
- zozbot234 7y agoFree software is actually a big driver of cheap innovation, precisely because it's so funding-constrained in the first place. It's one of those places where you would expect more funding to help quite a bit.