NASA patents to be auctioned

I just hope a bunch of trolls don't show up and then use what they get to keep people from building anything for the next 14 years.

Can't believe this wasn't posted here. It's been over a day since it was posted on slashdot. Anyways, this a very good opportunity for _real_ startups to get their hands on some advanced technology. It's very cool that NASA is doing something like this. If i had some funding, I'd for sure be at that auction.<p>Any startups plan on being there?

I can see why this is a huge disappointment to the HN community since NASA isn't releasing it's new "social aggregation" technology.<p>-yawn- wake me up when Web 2.0 is over and people are ready to build _real_ software.