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Re:Apple facing huge chip patent bill after losing case by fisherjeff on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @11:41AM (#10387233)
Well the majority of tuition funding is on loan from the federal government and I'm sure a big chunk of that grant money comes from DARPA, NSF, NIH, etc.

That's not necessarily to say their work should be in the public domain but it would still be nice to see them focus on more productive uses of their IP rather than just license fee extraction.

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Re:Apple facing huge chip patent bill after losing case by bpodgursky on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @12:01PM (#10387364)
The federal government generally makes a profit on student loans -- (most of them) get paid back eventually.
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Re:Apple facing huge chip patent bill after losing case by fisherjeff on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @12:45PM (#10387696)
True. My point was more that their budget would look very different if not for federal guarantees on those (relatively risky) loans.
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