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Re:A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA by bassman9000 on Sunday June 06, 2021 @10:43PM (#27418450)
A bit unfair. This is not a public agency allocation to a publicly executed project.

This is a private, for-profit enterprise with a public (_as in owned by the State_) customer.

Vastly different incentives when the customer and the one executing are not the same.

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Re:A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA by bregma on Monday June 07, 2021 @07:06AM (#27421162)
OK. Insulin, then. Some academics got to play with puppy dogs and get paid by the public purse, then then went and donated their patents to a non-profit. What a waste!
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