> the government has dictated since 1980 that
> government-funded research should not produce open-source
> or public-domain solutions, necessarily

That's not the way the law has been interpreted. They are encouraged and have the right to closed-source releases for commercial gain, but not an obligation. My PI developed a GNU-licenced bioinformatics application using government funds. He did have to fight his university's TLO to release it under the GNU licence, but since the NIH was funding him and not the university, he was able to simply tell them to piss off.

sold for 5.8 million to Louis Fitzgerald..
Hope he does half a good as job as the Shafferys and the bicycles are left outside rather than on the ceiling,