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A comment on Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign. Parent comment

Re:Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Cam... by bachmeier on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @08:36PM (#14757902)
My point is that universities have to choose. Grant money is either revenue or it's a way to cover the expense of doing research. It's hard for someone outside a university to understand how the system works.
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Re:Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Cam... by Fomite on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:26AM (#14758932)
Universities literally aren't allowed to mix direct and indirect funds for the primary source of their research money - the Federal government.

And Google is full of academics, funding academics, and being very careful about making clear these things are "gifts". They know full well how the system works.

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