Is there a bright future for open software projects?

[Anton Vredegoor]

On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 18:45:51 GMT, Courageous <jkraska at san.rr.com>
wrote:

>Conflict of interests. The problem is that many universities are at least
>partly funded by private dollars, and now have vested interests in
>intellectual property. This is why you now see so many patents coming
>out of universities. It's really a travesty, a complete corruption of
>the open, sharing of knowledge that makes science work.

Thanks for writing this. Not that I don't know this already, but since
not many people want to see this I got the impression of seeing
inappropriate things. The emperor has got no clothes, and its plain to
see for everyone who doesn't try not to see it :-)

Anton.