On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Andrew Case wrote:
> ...I don't know if there is any way to get more technical
> information, or if these cooperative agreements allow the company to
> keep everything proprietary.
The reason it's a cooperative agreement, not a contract, is that the
company (in theory) put money into it too. And the flip side of that is
that the company typically will retain at least some rights to the work.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. Historically, the government has had
a really bad habit of giving an innovative company a tiny contract which
requires it to divulge all its ideas, and then giving one of the Usual
Suspects a big fat contract to do something with them.
Henry Spencer
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