Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available to the public
When is the taxpayer going to be given the right to use inventions funded with their own money?It's pretty terrible that some academic can take public money to fund his research, then take out a patent on the result and prevent his financiers from using an 'invention'.Actually, the most stupid part about the whole thing it is that the government gets some rights to use these publicly-funded patented inventions. (As if the government, not the taxpayer funded it)