[kwlug-disc] yeah, yeah, it's always *our* fault

[Charles M]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Kyle spaans<3lucid at gmail.com> wrote:
> license-based software model. These firms do not bear the full costs
> of research and development for the software. Some of these

I could be very wrong but don't many commercial companies draw some of
their research from universities? AFAIK Microsoft rarely does research
they just buy someone/something. If there's a strong surge of research
it's usually market research/legal research.