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In article <1991Oct31.195608.226@skitzo.dseg.ti.com> dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com (Eric Dittman) writes:
>From Byte, April 1991, "Computing in the U.S.S.R.", by Igor Agamirzian,
>writing on the decline of Soviet informatics and computer science:
>
>"In developed countries, copyright laws protect the humanitarian as well
> as scientific and technological spheres.  In the U.S.S.R., the product
> of intellectual work does not belong to its author; it does not even
> belong to the organization within which it is developed.
>   Unfortunately, this is one of the main reasons for our decline in
> these disciplines.  Why should we invest in products if we can obtain
> everything free?"
>

This seems like a pretty wild conjecture. The SU has produced a very
impressive amount of c.s. and mathematics, and the real problems they
have faced have more to do with undersupply  of equipment and
oversupply of managers more than with patent law. Some people work in the1
sciences for love of knowledge, hard as this many be to believe.