> The RAID paper was used by many startups and storage companies as the foundation of their development, among them NetApp, and EMC (via Data General’s Clariion Disk Array)

So I guess that means our modern networking, storage, and Unix OS designs are all thanks to the same research philosophy

Open research / copyfree (BSD/MIT) leads to standards and industry-wide adoption of foundational technologies. Copyleft (GPL) does not.

e.g., a GPL reference implementation is not going to spawn an industry of companies trying to push the technology to its limits.

Strictly relying on the open source community to supply all innovation doesn't work. There are too many financial/resource challenges.