Personally, I'm a bit mixed. On the one hand, information wants to be free, blah blah. But on the other hand, if they really BASED the idea off what CMU did wit

Personally, I'm a bit mixed. On the one hand, information wants to be free, blah blah. But on the other hand, if they really BASED the idea off what CMU did without compensating them, doesn't that mean the private industry is profiting off public work without compensating the public for it?