Ask yourself this:
How much would cell-phone service cost, and how good would it be, if it were run by the government?
How much would computers cost, and how good would they be, if they were made by the government?
Or even: how much would Vista cost, and how many bugs would it have, if it had been developed by the government?
I think it’s more like , how much harder would it be to do business if every state were allowed to print its own money?There is a “federal pre-emption.” My guess is that the reason MIT is interested in it is that the inventors don’t want to find out whether some trial lawyer somewhere can get a jury in , say CA, to prohibit use of the device there, etc, etc.