throwaway02201

I hope you are being downvoted for the harshness and not the content.

> Like many research projects, this one will also probably last as long as there is funding. Remember, the goal of PhD students is to publish papers, not develop and maintain software. Thus, without skin in the game, I couldn’t trust my data/workloads to such systems.

Sadly true. For-profit companies only care about $$$. Academia only cares about publishing to get funding.

Both options are not ideal for developing trusted and user-focused software in the long term. OpenSSL is a good example.

No-profits really struggle to get funding. Government grants are a mess.

The world really needs a new approach to R&D.