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Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

R&D used to be done at universities for the benefit of all. It still often is.

Why should it all be in private hands?

[–] throwwyacc 0 points 10 months ago

Good luck moving literally all R&D to universities I guess

I don't think all research should be in private hands. But I don't think it's reasonable to assume we could move businesses to a crowd funding model and then somehow convince universities to do all of that R&D