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Researchers' Right To Open Source Research

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

bstadil writes: "There is an interesting debate over at SiliconValley.com about the right of researchers funded by Universities to make their IP Open Source. It's not at all simple. On one side Universities claiming their derive 5% of their Budget from IP licenses and it's vital for continued high level of 'Output,' on the other hand researcher who claim the public is billed twice by licensing the output."

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  1. my balls hurt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    from this frist post

    I mean damn, can one person be this much of a badass?

    cherish my balls! fp BITCHES

  2. Re:Well, who'd have though of that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >Who'd of thunk it?

    >I post intelligently;

    No, you don't.

  3. Re:The public is not being billed twice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yhbt. Yhl. Hand. Foad.

  4. Re:The public is not being billed twice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well said! But you'll get slapped down: after all, this is Slashdot, where paying for things is "bad" and dirty fucking hippies rule the roost.

    Silly fucking smelly hippies, go take a bath.

  5. Re:The answer is obvious... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ha ha ha, what a silly dirty smelly hippy he is. As if anyone would sign over anything with any real value to the FSF. What a bunch of shit.

  6. Re:It's not just employees... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh for fuck's sake. You've signed an agreement with them that they own that IP. If you don't like it, leave. If you break that agreement, I hope they sue your ass off.

    When the fuck will you stupid Slashdotters wake up to the fact that you are obliged to honour contracts you enter into? You're all a bunch of fucking stupid smelly hippies.

    I have one consolation, though: people as stupid as the parent poster are too fucking dumb to ever write anything important. The best you can all hope for is that you write some Open Source Software: after all, they let any old retard do that.