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Re:Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors by CraigJPerry on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:20AM (#27420572)
Most of the interesting innovations happen on publicly funded research. Whether it’s your RNA vaccine https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d... or your phones touch screen, or your siri voice assistant or your uber gps taxi
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Re:Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors by WalterBright on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:43AM (#27420696)
> Most of the interesting innovations happen on publicly funded research

Excluding airplanes, jet engines, rockets, transistors, git, etc.

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Re:Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors by devdas on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:11AM (#27420832)
Rockets were publicly funded research. A lot of airplane research was publicly funded.
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Re:Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors by WalterBright on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:15AM (#27420858)
Goddard was not publicly funded.

The Langley prototype fell into the Potomac like a sack of wet cement, and cost 20 times in government funding what the Wrights spent on their entire R+D program. Langley clearly had not solved any of the problems necessary for controlled, powered flight.

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