Posted: Jun 06, 2011 8:37 pm
by atrasicarius
Berthold wrote:Secrecy is sometimes necessary when the financial gains from an invention are important.

See some discussion of the Bologna project here.

I was mistaken in that thread, but, well, my physics is a bit rudimentary.


Excuse me, but the financial gains from an invention are never important compared to the science itself, not to mention solving the world energy crisis. Anyway, we do have this thing called "patents."