>1) Open source "follows the tail lights" of proprietary software.
It would be valuable to have examples of this. I am more familiar with open source providing compliant implementations of public standards. >2) Public research regains the initiative from private research. Substantial >innovation would come from widely funded and/or publicly funded research >projects that are then commercialised by vendors. How do you envision intellectual property being handled in this scenario? I know you refer to this issue below, but do you have a specific idea in the context of funded research? John
