> Competing research teams involves a lot of duplicated effort. Competing anything involves massive duplication of effort and wasted talent. One day people wil

> Competing research teams involves a lot of duplicated effort. Competing anything involves massive duplication of effort and wasted talent. One day people will realize this. http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2009_02_13/caredit.a0900021 http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previou... "Tournament markets... discard huge amounts of very high-quality talent, training, and skill. In the mythic version, science rewards effort and ability... In the real world, casting off large numbers of extremely capable people is simply how a tournament market works." For as long as everyone believes that the only alternative to cutthroat competition is sclerotic dictatorship, much human effort will continue to be thrown away in this manner. I give you Be, its patents bought up by patent trolls to prevent its technologies from ever being used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS I give you Symbolics Genera, languishing in obscurity forever because of our society's obsession with property rights.