Dr. Soljacic, who received a $500,000 MacArthur award in 2008, serves on the board of WiTricity as it commercializes the system.
The application saved millions of dollars for NASA — and made millions for Zweben, who commercialized the system at a startup called Red Pepper Software, which he sold to PeopleSoft Inc. in 1996 for $250 million.
But in 1982, A.T. & T. was broken up and its agreement with the department ended; before long, the company was selling copies of Unix without including the source code from which it was derived, effectively commercializing the operating system and hiding its building blocks within a proprietary program.
The companies involved in the joint development said they aim at commercializing the key system in fiscal 2009.
NTT aims at commercializing the Buru Navi system by around 2016 (according to Japanese business daily The Nikkei). .
This system was developed in the 1990s by a German company, Pulsion, who commercialized the PiCCO system (Pulsion, Munchen, Germany) [ 44].
Indeed, Pilash says, Direct Action organized large protests of between 10 and 20,000 people against Viktor Yanukovych, who sought to increase student and library fees so as to "commercialize the educational system".
"It's about things that are commercial, commercializing everything, commercializing the revolution," he says.
