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Where have the universities gone?Where have the universities gone?Posted Jul 25, 2007 13:37 UTC (Wed) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)Parent article: Where have the universities gone?
The problem is that as a rule university teachers just lack any engineering training. They are great at teaching computer language concepts to students. Because of the mathematical roots of university CS, they'll be aware of the latest algorithmic studies. They do the research part of R&D.
What they absolutely do not know is how to manage licenses, code drops, SCMs, relations with the projects they re-use code from, etc. They're no help to the students that may write useful or inspired code. And there's simply not enough time in a CS cycle for a student to learn all this by himself. Unless he invests a massive amount of private time in all this in addition to his studies.
Needless to say nowadays no one is interested in source code that needs massive licensing and dependency untangling before it can actually be used or redistributed. CS graduated from raw research to actual product-producing engineering a long time ago. And FLOSS coding requires more professionnalism that closed source coding - you need to insert yourself in a huge international ecosystem instead of just some corporation or university internal departments.
So universities mainly turn out code monkeys, that will have their code managed by the corporation that hire them (and even with this help, the result is usually not pretty). For universities to start turning out useful code again someone needs to take care of legalities and logistics. And convince teachers their students need this help.
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