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Re:ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei by tathougies on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @11:19AM (#19982139)
> Mathematicians,physicists also do a lot of research and they do not ask you to pay them to use their findings.

What? of course they do. The moment a physical reaction or process is applied to industry, you can bet someone will file a patent.

At engineering school, it is common for professors, students, etc, to patent technology they invent. Colleges have entire departments.

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Re:ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei by DiogenesKynikos on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:59AM (#19992906)
... which is an unfortunate example of privatization of a public good. The public pays for research, and an individual captures the profits.
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Re:ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei by tathougies on Thursday May 23, 2019 @01:19PM (#19993736)
Not all research is publicly funded. Historically speaking, most of it was not, until relatively recently. I don't disagree that publicly funded research should be public, but I think applying that universally to say that all patents are evil is rather strong and leaves no room for private investment.
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Re:ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei by DiogenesKynikos on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:18PM (#19996073)
"Relatively recently" here means pre-WWII. Basic research has been heavily reliant on government funding for decades. Before that, basic research was on a much smaller scale.
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