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by sam0x17 1032 days ago
One could, and one could counter with "then that is R&D done for the wrong reasons"

This is why we (at least used to) have things like wide-sweeping federally funded research grants aimed at advancing science and technology in areas and ways short-sighted profit-seeking R&D can seldom touch

Not discovering a thing is almost better than someone discovering it and then patenting it, imo. It's negative progress.