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Re:Universities have turned over hundreds of patents to pate... by harryh on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:57AM (#12744350)
You don't have rights to the salaries that public university graduates are able to earn based upon their degrees. Why would you expect to have rights to the profits earned based upon the knowledge generated by these institutions?

The plan you describe would lead to far less fruitful basic research and a poorer world as a result.

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Re:Universities have turned over hundreds of patents to pate... by Grishnakh on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:35AM (#12760771)
Holy shit. Maybe because I'm a part-owner in this institutions? Would you think it fair for a private company to take my money as investment money, and give me nothing in return, and keep all the profits for themselves?

I've never met anyone who actually believed in "privatize the profits, socialize the losses", but here you are.

And your claims about basic research and a poorer world have no evidence whatsoever to back them up. Universities have not always been this way.

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