re: #243 Obdicut

What are you talking about? This is the standard way stuff works:

Really smart dudes at a University develop some cool stuff. The university holds the patent on it, but licenses it to them (for money) and they take it and make a cool company out of it, having been able to develop the awesome idea inside an academic environment first.

What are you saying ‘good grief’ about, exactly?

it’s a great system you outlined there. my favorite part is where you didn’t have to insert “magically funded with extra tax dollars”, because the system that you outlined usually does the trick.

sure, some fields do require extra seed money. search engines= not one of them, at least not at present.