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A comment on Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down. Parent comment

Re:Yale students made a better version of its course catalog... by alan_cx on Friday January 17, 2014 @06:17AM (#7075227)
Ego. In my experience, most problems come down to ego.
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Re:Yale students made a better version of its course catalog... by theorique on Friday January 17, 2014 @06:42AM (#7075297)
Absolutely.

Consider the Assistant Deputy VP for Administrative Affairs who just got sold an official $20M "Enterprise Scale" solution for course registration that worked about as well as healthcare.gov, and a kid comes along and in a couple of weekends, makes something that works better and has more features.

Now the 'unofficial' solution is getting more and more popular and your gold-plated turd of a system that you staked millions of dollars of Official University Budget on is getting mocked mercilessly by the student body.

What do you do?

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