[stasmo]

I agree with you, but one could argue that R&D money comes from a desire to patent.

[sam0x17]

One could, and one could counter with "then that is R&D done for the wrong reasons"

This is why we (at least used to) have things like wide-sweeping federally funded research grants aimed at advancing science and technology in areas and ways short-sighted profit-seeking R&D can seldom touch

Not discovering a thing is almost better than someone discovering it and then patenting it, imo. It's negative progress.

[mrguyorama]

And I would point to the entirety of Open Source software