Would You Trust The Government With Your Intellectual Property?

Town Hall - Derek Hunter:

Businesses are more than happy to do business with the federal government for many reasons: 1) they pay well; 2) they always pay, and 3) doing so contributes a service to the country. While the first two points, from a business standpoint, are most important, it’d be foolish to discount the third. Yes, there is a lot of waste in government, but there is also a lot of necessary and good done by it as well, particularly in the national security realm. And that important area is where our government could soon shoot itself in the foot if it doesn’t back off a plan to force companies to surrender proprietary intellectual property as a cost of serving the country.



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