--- Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, very large particle accelerators are a lot more expensive than
> cars and microprocessors and they don't use the restrictive model (some
> new fuels are cheaper, others aren't). They still grow progress in
> incremental steps. It's also interesting to note that new fules, cars
> and microprocessors also don't have the secretive model you described,
But they do. Have you checked out the processor architecure and VLSI process
related
patents lately? there is a very large set of them and it keeps growing.
> and this lack of secrecy or monopoly has been the source of inmsense
> growth in new fuels, cars and microprocessors. This has been the case
Wrong.
> for as long as there have been projects that require high expenditures
> (several hundred years, beginning with large telescopes for astronomy).
> And they have all been done without secrecy or monopoly, and they have
> all grown inmensely because of the lack of secrecy and monopoly.
>
yes, but how manyof these have been done with private funding that has
been required to return a profit?
Sander
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