Free as in Marketable? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday April 23, 2003 @02:38AM from the faculty-politics-and-open-source dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I work in IT at a research university. A few of my co-workers and I are in the process of planning a piece of software that we would like to release to the public under the GPL license, but we're running into issues with our "intellectual property" office which thinks we have a potentially marketable product. We would rather give the product away for free and see our university get some credit for the product. How have others dealt with this problem? It's a shame that money is more important to a research school than sharing research with others."

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EAT IT FOR THE CLIT by SLASHDOT+EDlTOR · 2003-04-23 02:43 · Score: -1, Troll

Props to FTSO!

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easy! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-23 05:17 · Score: -1, Troll

just start up a sourceforge project page! That way, you'll get the benefot of recognition, without having to release any source code!