It’s funny that this comment keeps putting “researching” in quotes, but you guys do realize that R&D has the letter D in it as well right?

For Development?

Yeah, committing to a library isn’t research, but it is very clearly development.

You may not want this kind of development to receive tax breaks, which is a reasonable position to have, but this rhetorical trick of pretending R&D is only about research to pretend actions that are very clearly development are somehow illegitimate R&D is highly misleading to say it nicely.