Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > because the patents were not licensed. Now they can. This is more > > freedom, not less, or so it seems. > > It's more freedom -> for them (to sell the fruits of research). > It's less freedom -> for everybody else (to use those results).
My reading is different. Before, no one outside of government could do anythign with the results of the research, because there were patents but there were no licenses to use them. >> But note the difference between them: > Company - Private entity. Doesn't owe the general public anything. > University - Is (or should) be governed by public interests. If you are thinking in Israeli terms, you are right. But most of this discussion refers to US, for better or for worse. I don't have the numbers, but I am not even sure that more that 50% of US universities are public. Most of the best known (and contributing much of the best research and best researchers) are in fact private. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "IBM is a pretty big company." [W. Gates] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
