[Gllug] "Open source has its own problems" - article in Computing

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 16:54 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:14:13PM +0100, Dr. B. Whalley wrote:
> > It might be interesting to hunt down where his academic funding comes 
> > from - might throw some light on the opinions, no?
> 
> There's no smoking gun here, but the department where he works seems
> to be big on working with industry, including licensing "intellectual
> property":
> 
> http://www.gla.ac.uk/R-E/pub/collab/index.html
> 
Having just had a bit of a rant about Grid computing,
I should say that one of the goals of the e-science/Grid computing
program is to get the software and techniques used by industry.
So nowt wrong with industrial liaison departments, spinoffs etc.
Indeed, I work for a spinoff company.

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