alt Hacker NewsSomehow "protecting companies" by keeping basic research, done openly at a university lab, from being "stolen"? What?
It's like saying it's painful that the Web was invented in Europe and opened for everybody rather than being kept at CERN to protect European companies.
Right, is totally fine to create new inventions, but let others take credit and financial benefits. It is our duty to protect and get the benefits of European inventions, especially the ones financed with public tax. Open for everybody means benefits for everybody.