Why bother trying to protect those that Darwin should be claiming? Even if we somehow warn them suitably, they'll just be taken in by the next scam.
Let them deal with their own problems.
You don't need your idea approved by Microsoft to begin development - just enough cash to buy a dev kit and proof that your company can hack it.
You *do* need approval to publish, but that's not what you stated.
3. I'd be more worried about other students. Your professors probably have a sweet deal. At my school, it meant 6-figure salary and teaching 0-1 classes per semester and spending the rest of one's time investigating what they found interesting. Why would they leave that for the competition of free enterprise?
They don't need to leave their post to pursue private enterprise. Nearly every prof at a decent CS department will have an outside gig of some sort - some of them being highly profitable.
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