Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky |
Date: | Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:39:40 -0700 |
Content-Type: | TEXT/PLAIN |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Tresy Kilbourne wrote:
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/326578.asp
>
In defense of the contract system of the military
establishment (!!), here are some very interesting
lines of the same article:
It's not just red tape that spooks potential
Pentagon partners. There's also the
high-stakes question of intellectual-property
rights. Companies understandably want to own and
profit from any patent developed through
government research. But traditional defense
contracts don't allow that, based on the
rationale that the government shouldn't allow
just one company to profit from an innovation
financed by the taxpayers. "These are the biggest
frustrations," says Henry Kohlbrand, Dow
Chemical Co.'s director of external technology
and intellectual-asset management, explaining why
his company does little Pentagon work. "You have
to educate them on trade secrets and patents and
the importance of that in the outside world."
--prashanth
|
|
|