🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <=#brqzm@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
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>None of this applies, of course, to tangible assets.  Who owns the 
>equipment, software, etc would be governed by the contract between
>the university and the payor.  Being someone who has purchased 
>university research, I can assure you my contracts have specified
>the university controls their side of the deal.  Last thing I'd
>want would be for some professor to get his ass in a snit and
>run off to God knows where with my money and my equipment.
>I normally donate my equipment involved  to the UNIVERSITY after
>the project is finished.  
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>Reading this thread, two thoughts come to mind.  From the original 
>prof's own words, I conclude he's being a prick over a turf war
>he cannot win and that he'll probably kiss tenure goodbye.  Secondly,
>if this is representative of academic "research" today, something
>is badly wrong.
>

Ah, reality finally makes entry into the reality check. The discussion
before this point has been a little, shall we say, ACADEMIC.
One might argue causes to bite the hand that feeds one, but certainly
not when one is toothless. No wonder this country is awash in lawsuits.
Even the most basic modern interpersonal relationships like employer-
employee don't get the benefit of common sense. Maybe it's a net phenomenon--
go to the net with a question whose answer should be painfully obvious,
and get back nonsense answers.


Dale Parson, Bell Labs, dale@mhcnet.att.com

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