On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 12:03, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Okay I hate bring politics into our discussion but I'm interested in 
> what others are thinking about 102.
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evidently, you didn't hate bringing politics onto this message enough
not to do it.
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>  On the one hand it will generate 
> more money for the state (something that is *very* needed) on the other 
> hand it gives the state a reason to support technical Intellectual 
> Property, something that I don't really want to see happen. If the state 
> is suddenly allowed to make money off of  the Intellectual Property of 
> colleges (why don't the students get this?). They will be *much* less 
> inclined to listen to why software patiens should be done away with. I'm 
> interested in what others are thinking because I'm of two minds here, 
> short term vs. long term.

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 07:00, Vaughn Treude wrote: 
> 
> I was tempted to support this measure.  On the surface it sounds reasonable.  
> Radio talk show guy Charles Goyette (1100 KFNX) had some good comments in the 
> negative side (www.charlesgoyette.com):
> 
> "Look, under current law the results of taxpayer-driven research at our 
> universities can be sold or licensed to private businesses. Would it instead 
> have been wiser to have traded rights to state sponsored research to dot com 
> companies for their now worthless shares?  This measure would allow the 
> schools to be equity holders – owners– of businesses. One critic reasonably 
> suggests it wouldn’t be long before questions of profiteering, cronyism, and 
> conflict of interest arise."
> 
> He has a point.  I've decided to vote no.
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profiteering/cronyism/conflicting interests? Clearly higher education is meant to be provide the training/education that businesses need. A more formal partnership with businesses seems to be a logical nexus and it is done in many states.

I've never been impressed with Charles ability to see the positive side of anything.

This is a process that has much better upside than downside and is clearly worth trying.

Craig

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