[bassman9000]

A bit unfair. This is not a public agency allocation to a publicly executed project.

This is a private, for-profit enterprise with a public (_as in owned by the State_) customer.

Vastly different incentives when the customer and the one executing are not the same.

[bregma]

OK. Insulin, then. Some academics got to play with puppy dogs and get paid by the public purse, then then went and donated their patents to a non-profit. What a waste!