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In article <1992Mar25.192454.2627@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
masljg@gdr.bath.ac.uk (L J Groves) writes:

   I doubt that you'll find anything else like MCC in the US....  It caused quite
   an uproar at the time, because the kind of cooperative, industry-funded
   research that the 5GP was based on was simply not possible under US law...

Such cooperative, industry-funded research could well have been an anti-trust
violation earlier, because the law defined certain kinds of activities as
anti-competitive (violation of anti-trust law) regardless of their real effect on
competition.  But the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 provided a legal
framework for this kind of cooperation, and MCC was (I think) the first to take
advantage of its provisions.  The NCRA was of course passed in response to
Japanese (and perhaps also European) cooperative research programs.

Since then, other organizations have been formed under the NCRA, including the
Open Software Foundation (OSF).  I believe that the Software Productivity
Consortium and the Petroleum Open Software Corporation were also formed under
this act.

	-s

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