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Originally Posted by krozet
Profit is Not always the motivation for great things unless you can show me where the profit was for NASA to send people to the moon, or for the team that invented insulin or the eradication of the Polio Virus or the vast majority of Nobel Prize winners...
Computers were invented not for profit but for the betterment of education. Oil, and Electricity were not invented, they were discovered and the people that discovered how electricity works were academics, not profit seeking companies...
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well nasa is the .gov they dont make a profit all they do is spend money, and i agree with it. computers where not invented for education, one reason gates and allen are not together still is they had different views. gates saw everyone making computers and little profit in it over the long run, so he did software which he just about gave away for 15 years. now he has the biggest chunk of the market.
it also said that nobel prize winner can right there own pay checks. once known they can make lots of money from the notoriety