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Re:Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup by sailfast on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:44PM (#21518496)
In bullet 1, you say that you were heartbroken to see a citation in a defense project.

In bullet 2, you say that classification is the antithesis of science because projects are classified (read: not published)

But in Bullet 1, somebody cited you in an unclassified paper, and also once you publish you obviously don't get to control who uses your ideas or for what purpose short of a patent.

These seem mutually exclusive, but I might be misunderstanding.

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Re:Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup by MaulingMonkey on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:52PM (#21518572)
> ... in an unclassified paper

Or a declassified paper. (Not everything that starts behind the classification wall, stays behind the classification wall... but neither does everything behind the classification wall come forward in any reasonable timeframe.)

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Re:Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup by sailfast on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:29AM (#21525183)
True! But things do get released.
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