Flight was going to happen and was pushing out of the ground like so many grass sprouts.  This ridiculous tale is about the absurd flurry of activity to own a basic concept.  It would be better that people had cooperated as well as researched this for the common good.  This is why universities should not be trying to make a greedy buck off patents and IP, and why there shouldn&#x27;t be, say, an &#x27;Amazon Professor of Machine Learning&#x27; at the University of Washington.  Lack of greed is why we&#x27;re all enjoying tools like Linux.  Let&#x27;s hear it for open source software.