John Tapsell tapselj0@cs.man.ac.uk wrote:
In the UK, and I expect at every university everywhere, you sign a document granting them ownership of your brain when you join.
As I know all too well, in this situation, the so-called "viral freedom" of the GPL is your friend.
Quite frankly, I think I am offended that public money received by universities (and indeed now the money paid by the students themselves) is used to develop products which are not available for the national good. Why are we paying for their R&D effort that follows a broken product development process? If the public pays, the public should be allowed to use it without paying a second time, surely?