Talk:Federally funded research and development center

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This should start with a neutral description, not criticism. Also, there should not be so many sentences starting with "critics say". These statements should either be sourced or deleted. 24.205.85.14 19:18, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Update: the entire introduction is actually a copy-paste from the CRS report listed in the 'external links' section. 24.205.85.14 20:10, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Important to make the distinction between 'not-for-profit' and 'non-profit' institutions. For example, MITRE is a 'not-for-profit', meaning it makes a fee but this fee is used to finance R&D efforts, the products of which are then given to the US DoD for their use.

Nevertheless, having just checked the NSF page that this page clearly uses as its reference, NSF considers MITRE to be non-profit. Very odd.

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I agree with the first comment. Criticism is fine, but the article should not start with a note on criticism. I cannot think of any precedent (including other Wikipedia articles) for this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.64.165.83 (talk) 16:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)