I posted this yesterday since I am a Lindows sucker. Funny thing is unless your name is michael, cmdtaco, Cliff, timothy, hermos or a couple of others, good luck on getting your stuff posted.
Slashdot has gotten to stuck-up for it's own good. They don't take everyday-joes posts any more and if the do, they take the post, check it out and call it their post.
Slashdot is starting to suck. To bad...
Here's the question I have for/.'s. Is it legal for public universities and federal labs to use tax payer dollars to create software and then resell it back to the public?
This seems HIGHLY suspicious that we pay taxes, the government uses the dollars to fund projects and then sells that IP to corporations for a profit whom then charge us for a resulting product?
This should be in my book highly illegal to take public funds, create something and then sell it back to us. What's the law on this? Anyone know?
I would be one of the first to start raising all kinds of hell with my senator over this if it is indeed illegal.
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I posted this yesterday since I am a Lindows sucker. Funny thing is unless your name is michael, cmdtaco, Cliff, timothy, hermos or a couple of others, good luck on getting your stuff posted. Slashdot has gotten to stuck-up for it's own good. They don't take everyday-joes posts any more and if the do, they take the post, check it out and call it their post. Slashdot is starting to suck. To bad...
This seems HIGHLY suspicious that we pay taxes, the government uses the dollars to fund projects and then sells that IP to corporations for a profit whom then charge us for a resulting product?
This should be in my book highly illegal to take public funds, create something and then sell it back to us. What's the law on this? Anyone know?
I would be one of the first to start raising all kinds of hell with my senator over this if it is indeed illegal.