> it is easy to forget that the foundations of this trillion-dollar industry were laid down over 30 years ago in Munich

Yes is very easy to forget, cause the trillion is not being made in Europe. If it was really conceived in Munich (like the maps that got stolen also), it show how incompetent is Europe to keep it´s technology and protect European companies.

It is painful to read this article.

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Sharlin a day ago | parent [-]

Somehow "protecting companies" by keeping basic research, done openly at a university lab, from being "stolen"? What?

It's like saying it's painful that the Web was invented in Europe and opened for everybody rather than being kept at CERN to protect European companies.

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trilogic a day ago | parent [-]

Right, is totally fine to create new inventions, but let others take credit and financial benefits. It is our duty to protect and get the benefits of European inventions, especially the ones financed with public tax. Open for everybody means benefits for everybody.

	▲	Sharlin 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Honestly can't tell if sarcasm. Are you seriously proposing that all university research just stop and be replaced with some new proprietary system?