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Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Saturday June 11, 2016 @04:15PM (#11885129)
If you do the bare minimum work as a tenured professor you're going to get an awful lot of people extremely mad at you at all levels of the academic hierarchy.
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by bachmeier on Saturday June 11, 2016 @06:40PM (#11885713)
If you do the bare minimum work and you're spending a lot of time on your own company, at my university, you will almost certainly get a pink slip. Doesn't matter if you have tenure. We are not allowed to work more than one day a week on such things, and that requires approval, which probably won't happen if we're not publishing, have terrible teaching evaluations, and aren't doing a full share of service and advising.
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by williamstein on Sunday June 12, 2016 @12:27AM (#11886643)
This is precisely correct. And even if I could get away with it, I would not feel that it is morally right (for me at least).