Reply to post: Re: The first hit is always free

NASA offers free access to its patents for startup entrepreneurs

BillG
WTF?

Re: The first hit is always free

NASA's Office of Technology Transfer has been around since the 1960's. I wrote a report about this in high school about 30 years ago and so I was pleased to see this article. But what's changed is that up until now the technology has been totally free with a license similar to the GNU public license. Charging for the technology may be illegal under U.S. law because it was paid for by U.S. taxpayer dollars.

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