> About time! Now we just need to get rid of the rules, that the work done by the students is owned by the university..
If you want to start your own commercial enterprise, don't use non-profit, tax exempt equipment and facilities to do it.
If you want to start your own commercial enterprise, don't use non-profit, tax exempt equipment and facilities to do it.
Of course if I had my druthers none of this would be property, either the university's or the student's or the professor's. The idea of someone owning an idea is bonkers, especially when the ideas they claim to own are built on stuff you were just taught. You gilded the tip of a long chain of human creation you were lucky enough to be handed, now the world fucking owes you? It's absurdly arrogant.
If you create a thing in the world that did not exist before, and other people find it valuable, why should you not be able to reap some of that value? Why is the world more entitled to the thing you made, the insight you had, and the work you put in, than you are?
Incidentally, did you really mean to say that you spent your life around the smartest person in the world? If so, well, I'm skeptical but also curious who you think the smartest person in the world is.