What does the free market have to do with open-sourcing government research? You looked at the facts and drew the wrong conclusion. The only thing this illustrates is that markets are eager to profit from government research. Where was all this so-called free market capital when the basic research needed to be funded? It was being invested in the real estate bubble by overpriced CEO's who got rich off of these "scarce resources".
They had the tech back in 1999 to put 1 T on a disc. The company's disappeared.
It was called the Fluorescent Multilayer Disc.
They had over 120 patents but went bankrupt for lack of funds/investors after the.com crash.
Their technology was bought out and is now called Digital Multilayer Disk (DMD).
http://www.ddatainc.com/page02.html
But without money the superior tech will likely lose again to either blue-ray or HD-DVD or some other tech backed by the big content providers.
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What does the free market have to do with open-sourcing government research? You looked at the facts and drew the wrong conclusion. The only thing this illustrates is that markets are eager to profit from government research. Where was all this so-called free market capital when the basic research needed to be funded? It was being invested in the real estate bubble by overpriced CEO's who got rich off of these "scarce resources".
They had the tech back in 1999 to put 1 T on a disc. The company's disappeared. It was called the Fluorescent Multilayer Disc. They had over 120 patents but went bankrupt for lack of funds/investors after the .com crash.
Their technology was bought out and is now called Digital Multilayer Disk (DMD).
http://www.ddatainc.com/page02.html
But without money the superior tech will likely lose again to either blue-ray or HD-DVD or some other tech backed by the big content providers.
R.S. has had difficult financials recently so it is a good thing that as proper geeks the MythBusters gave them some well-deserved support.
If only our eVoting equipment was a sophisticated and secure as credit & debit cards. http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gr aphic/2006/03/16/GR2006031600213.gif