Hau moris (I'm alive)

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Well, that dengue fever is really something special. Four and a half days of an absolutely thumping headache, the feeling that every bone in your body is being crushed and frozen along with sweat pouring off your body.

Thanks to everyone who wished me a speedy recovery. Much appreciated believe me.

In other news apparently the ICIAM paper was a success. A certain Professor Lyudmila Kuzmina from Kazan State University in Russia is interested in a follow-up publication, linking with the works of Ilya Prigogine. That should be quite a challenge (I mean, count the honorary doctorates the guy received, sheesh!).

Oh, and anti-independence militia apparently have been running around threatening people in Bobonaro district. Never a dull moment here.

Comments

Commercialising technology

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... corporations really had open slather to rip off publicly funded research

I actually prefer that model.Universities should be about producing knowledge for free access for all. Whatever they come up with should remain in the public domain for any who care to make use of it.

Likewise, their funding should come from general revenue.

The commercialisation of university research is an enormous step towards the colonization of knowledge-production by sectional business interests.

After all, what would it have been like if the TCP/IP protocol suite was produced under the guise of "commercialised technology"?

Re: Commercialising technology

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Maybe there are exceptions like the one you mention, but most research-generated technologies require investment capital before they can become useful products. This is an inescapable fact. In capitalist societies that investment capital has historically come from the private sector. Indeed one could make the argument that in countries like Australia, universities have historically substituted for commercial R&D departments. While they have also tolerated more independent forms of thought, they are not, on the whole, bastions of free thinking.