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Universities go against the trendUniversities go against the trendPosted Jul 24, 2007 19:21 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Universities go against the trend by atai Parent article: Where have the universities gone?
Indeed. I've talked about this with quite a few newgrads and everyone agreed that it's easier to get permission to publish something in commercial company (even in Microsoft!) then in University. Why ? The problem is lack of focus. With commercial company you know what your company does and if the piece of code is not related to core business of said company and it's not likely that it'll give you advantage over competitors in the next 2-3 years - then it's easy for a manager to give you approval: not much harm can be done, but it'll raise goodwill and may be even give us some contributions back, go for it. But in university - it's other story: there are no "core business" and so any valuable contribution will be held back in the hopes that someone will buy it. It's just easier to forget about chunk of your life then to fight this system. Sad, really...
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