briancleland

Ask them to show you their full internet history. Ask them to give you a copy of their family's internet history, including parents, siblings and children. They aren't allowed to ask for permission.

Those are not the only options. Free and open source innovations can create enormous economic opportunities - witness Linux, the Web, etc etc. Even now, unpatented medicines are widely commercially available and making some people a lot of money.

I don't see any reason why the researchers couldn't have placed their discovery in the public domain, just as Tim Berners-Lee did with his ideas.

Unfortunately many universities (and hence researchers) are under pressure to commercialise their IP, based on the assumption that such behaviour is beneficial to the economy.

The article states that they are seeking a commercial partner, which suggests the research was indeed publicly funded.

I'd suggest reading the Enchiridion first. It's arguably the most influential text of all, and it's a very quick read.

http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

There is only a disadvantage if you place value in externals. The most important lesson in Stoicism is that only the things in our power are good or bad, whereas externals have no intrinsic value.

"Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html

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