Hey, Am 19.12.2010 um 22:14 schrieb John Nilsson: > Isn't VPRI funded by the EU? In other words tax-money?
that was a good one. :-D VPRI is located in California. I've been involved with a large EU project, and believe me, the bureaucrats give you the hardest of times when it merely comes to as much as having a UK branch of a US company in a project consortium. No, really, I think VPRI is funded by the NSF when it comes to tax money. ;-) As for the tax money argument itself, you hear that every now and then - and I think it's rightfully argued: research results that come to be due to public funding should go public. The *results*, but not every bit of the *research* itself. There's copycats out there. Sure, many people are honestly interested in the intermediate results, but are they really in a position to demand public release of every single delta? If you like reading between the lines a bit, take a look at Ian's recent S3 paper, download the corresponding source code, and have fun. Seriously. Combine that with idst/Pepsi/Cola, and you get a sense of where part of the entire project is moving. It's impressive and inspiring already, and I'm looking forward to the result. Best, Michael -- Dr.-Ing. Michael Haupt [email protected] Software Architecture Group Phone: ++49 (0) 331-5509-542 Hasso Plattner Institute for Fax: ++49 (0) 331-5509-229 Software Systems Engineering http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/ Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH, Potsdam Amtsgericht Potsdam, HRB 12184 Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
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