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> I'm glad to see these scientists directing their work to civilian concerns rather than military purposes Is that what they were doing? Because I initially th
by atonse 11y ago
> I'm glad to see these scientists directing their work to civilian concerns rather than military purposes
Is that what they were doing? Because I initially thought "what a waste... a lot of public research will now be locked up in one business's competitive advantage" - but if they were just building stuff for the military that would get locked up for decades anyway, this is better.
- fixermark 11y agoNREC definitely does some military work, but it also does quite a bit of civilian work (things like pattern recognition to improve industrial farming systems by discerning types or quality of produce). But that research is generally privately-funded and privately-owned, too. NREC is not---in general---a hotbed of publicly-published common-use research.