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A comment on America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity. Parent comment

Re:America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity by 0x00000000 on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:52PM (#19661313)
>I would much rather this money be granted for research that then becomes public domain

That's not how it works though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

Research from publicly funcded universities gets patented then turned around to fuck you and make you pay for it twice all the time

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Re:America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity by caymanjim on Sunday April 14, 2019 @05:44PM (#19661891)
This falls under two wrongs.
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