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>Surely, everyone is working on different things here and there, but this idea that there is such critical intellectual property the US that needs to be guarded
by ren_engineer 5y ago
>Surely, everyone is working on different things here and there, but this idea that there is such critical intellectual property the US that needs to be guarded so intensely in this like James Bond scenario, just feels a little wacky
lots of technology that took billions of dollars and decades to develop? Why would you give that away for free?
Protecting IP isn't some new thing, humans have done it for thousands of years
>As Constantine Porphyrogennetos' warnings show, the ingredients and the processes of manufacture and deployment of Greek fire were carefully guarded military secrets.
>The technological advantage it provided was responsible for many key Byzantine military victories, most notably the salvation of Constantinople from the first and second Arab sieges, thus securing the Empire's survival
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
- pietrovismara 5y ago> lots of technology that took billions of dollars and decades to develop? Why would you give that away for free? I don't know, ask Alexander Fleming maybe. To save lives? Make the life better for scores of other people, no matter their nationality or class? Why do you even do research, just for the bilions?
- ren_engineer 5y ago>Alexander Fleming not a great example, Penicillin was only made possible due to government funding to refine the manufacturing process for war >As to the chemical isolation and purification, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford took up the research to mass-produce it, which they achieved with support from World War II military projects under the U.S. and British governments and you could make the case that if the Allies just handed that research over to their enemies it would prolong the war