The snide implication that CSIRO patent claims were bogus is an appalling attack on the integrity of the scientists involved. The guys from radio astronomy took a research direction that others had never thought of and filed a patent. Then these wonderful tech companies took the information disclosed in the patent and built billions of dollars of profit around it, without acknowledgement and without payment of a red cent.
CSIRO gets only a proportion of its funding from the Federal Government and even this has been falling in real terms for the last 25 years. Even though CSIRO ranks in the top one per cent of world scientific institutions in 13 research fields, staff numbers continue to fall as a result of lack of support from both sides of politics. Just to put this in perspective, the $200M will just about cover the shortfall in CSIRO’s external earnings that resulted from the GFC.
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CSIRO gets only a proportion of its funding from the Federal Government and even this has been falling in real terms for the last 25 years. Even though CSIRO ranks in the top one per cent of world scientific institutions in 13 research fields, staff numbers continue to fall as a result of lack of support from both sides of politics. Just to put this in perspective, the $200M will just about cover the shortfall in CSIRO’s external earnings that resulted from the GFC.
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