Corporate Welfare: was Re: RMS's note to am-info regarding software development models...

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> Fact is Eric, Berkeley had no thought of putting anyone out of business.  On
> the other hand, as they did with BSD UNIX, Berkeley (and Stonebreaker)
> actually PUT THEM IN BUSINESS IN THE FIRST PLACE:  One of the first RDBMS's
> ever built was Berkeley INGRES---and INGRES source code has been the core of
> several "commercial" RDBMS projects--maybe all of them, in some form or
> other.
> 
> How's that for corporate welfare.


...... Consider also the pharmaceutical industry.  Try, for example, to
name a single cancer drug that was not developed with public R&D
subsidies.    Jamie



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