Folding Forum

It's called R&D because when you're working on cutting-edge development (D) there is always a lot of research (R) required. Generally there's no clear separation between the two, there's always atleast some overlap. Any research performed is always based on previous research which is based on pr...

I can understand not wanting a corporation to be able to take the results of these studies done by FAH and patent them so that nobody else can use them, however I don't understand the hostility toward patenting in general. Patenting exists so that people can stand a reasonable chance of producing a ...