mizukami writes: "Salon.com is running a story about universities moving to profit from code they've developed, rather than release it into the public domain as has been the norm in the past. The story gives the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 as a leading cause."
Why not?
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Because the kids (and adults) who PAY to go to SCHOOL (directly or via taxes they'll pay later) are there as students, not employees. A school has no right to make money off students activities beyond the tuition/taxes those students pay.
If they university wants to make money, it should form a corporation seperate from the school. Students are not (officially) slaves. They are the paying customrs of the university, not the other way around.
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Because the kids (and adults) who PAY to go to SCHOOL (directly or via taxes they'll pay later) are there as students, not employees. A school has no right to make money off students activities beyond the tuition/taxes those students pay.
If they university wants to make money, it should form a corporation seperate from the school. Students are not (officially) slaves. They are the paying customrs of the university, not the other way around.