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Another (better in my opinion) way of phrasing this question is: Do you agree/disagree that the government should give more money to universities, so all resea
by CJefferson 13y ago
Another (better in my opinion) way of phrasing this question is:
Do you agree/disagree that the government should give more money to universities, so all research can be free (as in freedom).
I agree with your principle, but tgere is no free lunch. This will lead to either higher taxes, or less publicly funded research.
- eshvk 13y ago> Do you agree/disagree that the government should give more money to universities, so all research can be free (as in freedom). This phrasing I agree with (conditionally). I think as a taxpayer if more money can let research be free with patents acting more like a way of enforcing that downstream work done based on that patent is also not patentable. To give you guys some more context. I don't necessarily think that the interests of the public are the same as the interests of a corporation. E.g. if I do research on finding a new way of curing AIDS and Big Pharma 101 takes that research and changes one tiny molecule, patents the resulting product and sells it for exorbitant costs, I should have a way to either make them pay or force to not sell it for such a cost. Considering that it is leveraged on my research.
- thomasahle 13y ago> I agree with your principle, but tgere is no free lunch. Ah, but of course it is assumed that such free research will make its way to businesses which profit and so pay more taxes.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoRather than higher taxes I would prefer simply to reallocate the budget. Rather than giving a billion dollars to the NSA to build a data center in Utah, give it to Universities to do research and publish it for free.