In which Meredith gets along with people

[maradydd]

Yet another discussion with my adviser that didn't turn into a fight. I am, in a word, amazed.

(And he was even being critical this time: he pointed out a general use-case for QBE which my machine-learning library supports but my SQL syntax doesn't. So now I get to dive back into the grammar and fix that, but it won't be hard -- and it's the right time to do it, since I haven't really gotten started implementing ranking yet. So, look for that update sometime around the end of this month/beginning of next.)

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[enochsmiles.livejournal.com]

...while leaving students on research-assistant salaries, as opposed to giving them any IP rights in the material that wouldn't have existed without their research and work. It's happened to people in the engineering and biosciences departments here, and I doubt it's different other places.

Yep. You pretty much sign over all your IP rights when you get hired as a grad student, anywhere. If you're lucky, you'll get founders' stock in the spin-off if they recognise that they need to hire you in order for the company to be successful. Planning for this, however, means hiding key pieces of your research from the academic community. It's quite a scam.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

My answer to this so far has been to GPL everything that I think is even remotely useful.