Patents vs. Secrecy

giampy writes "New Scientist is reporting that the NSA appears to be having its patent applications increasingly blocked by the Pentagon. From the article: 'the fact that the Pentagon is classifying things that the NSA believes should be public is an indication of how much secrecy has crept into government over the past few years.'"

Comments

If you can't patent it...

[Spy der Mann]

publish it! :D

win/win

[tooba]

Does this mean that there are a bunch of secret ideas out there that I can patent for my own personal profit? Score!

Re:There is not enough data...

[Zordak]

Man, it happens every time. There always has to be some killjoy who comes along spouting "reason" and "thiking" and raining all over the parade. The proper response here is to jump to some result-oriented conclusions and indulge in some good old-fashioned reactionary government bashing. Next you're going to start blaspheming and say there might even be a legitimate security-related reason for keeping those patents secret. I mean, what are you, some paid Bush administration shill? Next time, please try to post a little before you think.