Haha, this has to be the funniest thing I've read on the INTERNET today. Do you consider Google to be "consumer grade"? That's up for debate I suppose after re

Haha, this has to be the funniest thing I've read on the INTERNET today. Do you consider Google to be "consumer grade"? That's up for debate I suppose after recent outages :) On the serious side though. Research projects rarely make it to commercial success because they're risky, not because they're secret. And that's why the state funds most of it. Generally speaking the private-sector prefers the exploitation phase rather than the research phase, for obvious reasons, it's much more profitable!