How does your school gain a reputation? (Score 1)

First off we have to concede the fact that schools will never be able to pay competitive wages for development work that their graduate students produce. Therefore students feel compelled to market their improvments, projects, etc. on the open market.

However, we have to consider that schools are nourturing students and providing an environment where this kind of development can take place. Most of us have chosen to become students, and in that decision we have to consider that everything that has been developed through the learning experience should belong to school. We would not have otherwise been able to make these developments without them.

If the development of this research, product, etc. is not the direct result of the education recieved, then you should not be doing that kind of development and research at a school. You should be doing it on a private level, thereby completely separating you from any controversy.

As it stands right now, part of the price of school is the forfiture of certain intellectual property, so that scholastic environments can help you develop your intellect to a different level. Your rewards come after graduation and in the future application of everything that you have learned.