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Removing Obstacles on Joint Research

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the playing-nice dept.

Mark_Uplanguage writes "The New York Times is reporting that a conglomeration of 7 universities and 4 industry partners have agreed to open up software created out of industry funding. From the article: 'The tone was set, Ms. Mitchell said, by the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which allowed universities to hold the patents on federally funded research and to license that intellectual property to industry [...]The guidelines and framework for the agreement will [be] posted this week at www.ibm.com/university, and at the Kauffman foundation's site, www.kauffman.org.' It's nice to see people sharing again."

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  1. Yadda by Guppy06 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The New York Times is reporting"

    Ah yes, that fine purveyor of last year's news. Or do they only sit on stories to save incumbents' elections?

    (Yes, I'm trolling, mod me down.)