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Is there a bright future for open software projects?

Kyler Laird Kyler at news.Lairds.org
Sun Dec 1 14:57:21 EST 2002 
[followup to my own post]

Ah!  I found the quote I mentioned.
	http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/04/university_open_source/print.html

	Many would regard giving the Internet to the world as a
	benevolent act fitting for one of the world's great
	public universities. But Bill Hoskins, who is currently
	in charge of protecting the intellectual property
	produced at U.C. Berkeley, thinks it must have been a
	mistake. "Whoever released the code for the Internet
	probably didn't understand what they were doing," he
	says.

	Had his predecessors understood how huge the Internet
	would turn out to be, Hoskins figures, they would
	surely have licensed the protocols, sold the rights to
	a corporation and collected a royalty for the U.C.
	Regents on Internet usage years into the future. It is
	the kind of deal his department, the Office of
	Technology Licensing, cuts all the time.

Am I the only one who reads "they would surely have licensed
the protocols, sold the rights to a corporation and collected a
royalty for the U.C. Regents on Internet usage years into the
future" as "they would surely have killed it"?

--kyler
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