Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare Earth Magnets (2014)

Re:Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare E... by oldandtired on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:02AM (#14365569)

Goes to show that stupidity isn't dead. I wonder what kind of "licensing fees" will they require? I also wonder how much of this research was paid for by public money?

Instead of making this available to everyone so that these kinds of magnets can get out there, they want to scrooge first. If I recall correctly, universities that have gone down this path have simply stalled the progress of mankind instead of pushing it forward.

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Re:Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare E... by lovemenot on Thursday May 18, 2017 @06:35AM (#14366131)

The University of Minnesota licensed Gopher in the early '90s. Until Gopher had its lunch eaten by a public domain WWW.

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Re:Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare E... by ageofwant on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:35AM (#14365917)

Damn right. And just one sentence above they go on about the environmental harm rare earth extraction causes. Surely if this was a real concern just 'licence' the tech for free. I would expect universities of all organisation to understand that baking a bigger cake means more cake for everyone. Fighting like jackals over scraps is what I expect 'business' to do. But uni's have become big, inefficient fascist diploma factories, and you can tell.

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Re:Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare E... by panzer_wyrm on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:36AM (#14365922)

If public money went into development - the public is definitely entitled to a cut.

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Re:Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare E... by smaddox on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:19PM (#14454747)

The US government typically gets non-exclusive license rights to any patents developed under US grants.

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Re:Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare E... by Sylphine on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:34AM (#14365913)

You can bitch about it when we will all have basic income until then they are doing what any other inventors are doing.

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Re:Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare E... by oldandtired on Thursday May 18, 2017 @09:24AM (#14366969)

Who's complaining. I am making an observation about how universities have gone down the wrong path. Anything I invent (especially on the back of others work), I share - no strings. The main reason is that anything I have designed or thought up has been expanded by others and I get to increase my knowledge by that very process.

As long as the USA (as in the people) choose the current way they have as the "best" way to run their society, then it'll never have "basic income" or even "basic health care".

I live in a country that has the most innovative/inventive people on earth bar none. But we are entrepreneurial morons as a nation and we doubt our own ability and inventiveness. If we actually got past those specific cultural biases that we have, no other country would be able to catch up to us.

There are three nations, which, if they were able to get past their individual biases, would together change the world so fast that your head would be spinning to keep up. Things like a space elevator or flying car or even individual flying machines would be passe.

So when a university does this kind of activity then we can be assured that progress will be slowed to a snails pace.

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