Sensationalist title, with no logical argument to back it up. Way to attack a straw man! The argument is not that government never contributes to great discoveries, the argument is that government hinders great discoveries. Without government influence, progress would be occur much more quickly and the acceleration of progress would be greater as well. Governments make destruction (war) profitable. Their presence always has a net negative effect, that gets progressively worse with time in general.
$215 million for any software is simply bullshit. Somebody is lining their pockets BIG TIME. How many engineers do you need for a single freaking Chat App? 10 or 20 at absolute MOST. If you can't build a quality messaging app for less than $2.15 million you are failing HARD.
Plan to? Hello! They already have infected millions of mobile phones, servers, and desktop computers alike with malware. You are delusional if you think otherwise, NSA malware is the very OS you are running.