“We had done no patenting, and ALOHA was published in scientific papers,” putting their work in the public domain, Professor Abramson said in the oral history,

“We had done no patenting, and ALOHA was published in scientific papers,” putting their work in the public domain, Professor Abramson said in the oral history, adding: “And that was fine with me. I was too busy surfing to worry about that sort of thing.” This is the ideal situation. Groundbreaking progress made by people with no profit motive funded by the government. As we've seen with the Covid vaccines good things happen when governments fund basic science.