At least when guvmint "wastes" money in R&D, the IP is often out there and available to people to do things with later. Big companies will hoover up very smart

At least when guvmint "wastes" money in R&D, the IP is often out there and available to people to do things with later. Big companies will hoover up very smart people and employ them paying big bucks basically moving protobufs around in more and exotic ways, and the IP they generate is kept inside (usually).