After having just spent 14 years in the university system, I can tell you
with great sadness that you will probably be dissapointed. I have been
involved in the sciences for a very lonmg time, and open source development is
an extension of scientific principles, but the science being done in uni's now
is getting more and more guarded.
I hope I am wrong because I think it's a great idea, but I know the current
political and ceonomic climate at the moment.
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, Chuck Dale wrote:
> Night all,
>
>
> INTRO
>
> I've been thinking a lot about the possibilities for development
> of free software in a funded, not for profit environment.
>
> Not just donated time, but people being paid to write software.
> But not software that sells, software that helps people to use
> computers and therefore live better.
>
>
> PROPOSITION/QUESTION
>
> I see that there are three avenues for development of free
> software at univesities. I'm interested to hear of people doing
> any of the following or if there is free software development
> other than fits into these categories.
>
> 1) Computer Science undergraduate, honours and postgrad projects.
>
> 2) Research projects. Such as Jeff Kingston at Sydney Uni working
> on lout stuff.
>
> 3) Government/Business grants to get software written. Does this
> happen at all?
>
>
> Some thoughts?
>
> Chuck
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