He decided to sell them in part to pay off hefty medical bills from cancer and other illnesses and because he thought they should be in the public domain.

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And having the interface information in the public domain should eventually result in more chips being sold.

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Personally, I agree with Grimmelmann that the authors of the MMSE should terminate their license and release the MMSE into the public domain.

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If the FDA and GlaxoSmithKline want to extricate themselves from their current public relations predicament surrounding the diabetes drug Avandia, they should put all the data that has been collected about the drug into the public domain.

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