Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Yasha Karant
As for whether or not "legally binding" contracts/NDAs are used (that depends in part upon the nation under which legal system the collaborator may reside and/or that is providing the funding), the system is quite "political" and "power based", as indeed has appeared in a number of books. For

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
To add. all official published results must be done using "official analysis", and for the purposes of this discussion, said "official analysis" often runs exclusively on RedHat-flavour linuxes. > > Most HEP (and sometimes other) "academic" collaborations have > collaboration agreements for all

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Yasha Karant
Most HEP (and sometimes other) "academic" collaborations have collaboration agreements for all member institutions (or groups or individuals) that no work done by the collaboration may be published or discussed without permission from the collaboration, typically a set of PIs (often not a

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 4:09 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 06:27:07PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: > > > > Has anyone tried the Institute for Advanced Study Springdale (IAS) > > EL 8 distro? > > > > What for? I have my "16 free RHEL subscriptions" to run my 1 el8 machine

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
> At some point ... Yasha you are writing some very strange stuff. > NDA collaboration contracts that exist for the various > CERN/Fermilab experiments ... if your NDA stands for "non-disclosure ...", then I must say that I do not believe there are any secret agreements between experiments and

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Yasha Karant
I too am suggesting one switches to Ubuntu LTS current production (20.4.x for all production x). The one issue that I have not been able to resolve: what is the installed base of LTS for real world production use? I know of several "smallish" list servers that are using LTS. Are others

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 06:27:07PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: > > Has anyone tried the Institute for Advanced Study Springdale (IAS) > EL 8 distro? > What for? I have my "16 free RHEL subscriptions" to run my 1 el8 machine for developing and supporting the MIDAS data acquisition package. As for