On 28 February 2010 22:38, Dan Amelang <daniel.amel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: >> >> I think it's scandalous that a publically-funded non-secret project >> does not have far stricter requirements for public engagement than are >> apparent here. > > Scandalous!
Oh dear, I was simultaneously wearing my Victorian and my tax-payer's hat (though I pay taxes to a government that spends rather less on research than the US government). Still... > :) Actually, in my experience, many publically (sic) > -funded projects don't have public repositories that are updated in > real-time (like many of ours are). So the scandal may be more > widespread than we initially suspected! ...this really is a scandal. Nothing to do with VPRI, though. > please consider what I said about incubating great ideas. >From what I recall of academia, ideas have to put up with the worst scrutiny long before they go public... -- http://rrt.sc3d.org _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
