Re: Huh? DAPRA GC was not a good thing?

Randy M. Dumse wrote:

> "joecoin" <joecoin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:Xns96F2CCBDFA678joecoin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Yes I do know how the Wright brothers got rich.
>
> Not the way I heard it. Wilbur was broken up in a plane crash (out
> demonstrating the technology with an Army inspector who works for
> Wright's competitor), later during the lawsuites over their rights dies
> of typhus. Orville eventually looses his intellectual property rights.
>
> I haven't done a very extensive serach, but from:
> http://www.lighterthanair.net/langley.htm
>
> "Orville wins the patent battle, but it's a hollow victory. When World
> War I starts just two years later, the government frees all the airplane
> companies from patent restrictions so they can build better planes"
>
> That's why I say this is such a good example from the history book. They
> guys who brought us lighter than air aviation were stripped of their
> rights and technologies by the government a few years later.

Quite a trick considering that they died in 1799 and 1810 respectively, and
were French citizens living in France to boot.

> Such repeated governmental behavior is the basis for my saying, "Our
> little robotics community just spent, ?what?, $40 million or more,
> creating something that we should have been paid $40 billion for? and
> without even the promise of a kiss afterwards."
>
> You think our fine government will respect any patents that came out of
> the DAPRA GC? Why should they?

The same reason they would respect such patents that did _not_ come from
that source?

> Besides, they got advanced copies of all
> the ideas. They were handed them over to the inspectors.
>
> So you think you DARPA racers are anything or anyone more important than
> Wilbur or Orville Wright? Learn from how they were treated, and expect
> less for yourselves.
>
> There is a well established precedent for treating you so. Did you
> participants all do this so you could be used as unpaid slave labor?
> Because that is the likely reward awaiting your hours of sacrifice. Like
> I said, the party is over, DARPA's goals were all met, the prize money
> has gone to one of their long term associates. (Look up the definition
> of shill on Wikipedia, not legality comment on same.)

Is it your contention that the winner cheated somehow? If not, exactly what
is your contention? Generally speaking research agencies have long term
relationships with the more capable research establishments, so it is not
surprising that one of their long term associates was able to produce the
most successful device.

> Despite my many detractors, I hope it is coming clear to some of the
> reasonable readers out there, I am not making things up, I am simply
> pointing at history. Some ought to be scratching their heads about now,
> and wondering, huh, maybe DAPRA GC wasn not a good thing. Only if
> history repeats itself.

What's becoming clear is that you (a) are not rational on this topic and (b)
should not take up the practice of law any time soon.
>

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