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by mschuster91 314 days ago
> They don't have the resources or the incentive to do so.

Of course they have. Guess how MP3 was developed - an offshoot of the German Fraunhofer Institute and FAU Nürnberg-Erlangen, amongst others.

The fact that no one seems to even be able to imagine how funding anything from the government could even work (despite that era being just a few decades ago) is shocking.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3