I can't imagine working in a standard text editor anymore. I've used Edit+ for a few years, liked it a lot, but it doesn't stand a chance against Zend Studio (my IDE of choice). Zend is by no means perfect, but having the names auto-completed and parameters reminded is a true bliss for someone with memory as bad as mine.
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well, he still had the idea first, and told everyone about it
Well, if he can prove that he had the idea first (he can't), and that those people from India heard about the idea from him (highly unlikely), he deserves some of the profit.
This is all fine and dandy, except it's based on a (wrong) assumption, that the important thing is to get people to wander around your website. The correct principle is to help people find the stuff they need quickly.
I'd guess that you either had some serious usability problems or bad content, or both. I may be wrong though.
(1) The students pay, as some of their tuition money must go to software development at the university (2) Businesses pay, as they often donate money to such projects (3) The public pays, as our tax dollars go to university grants (4) The researchers "pay" by putting in large amounts of time.
(1) No, tuition is to compensate for the cost of teaching them, it has nothing to do with software developement (or any other activity besides that connected to teaching students).
(2) If they want to, they can and the results of research funded by them should be exclusive to them, but they should be paying enough to pay for the time and knowledge of the researchers involved, and they should pay for it exclusively (although there can be more than one company paying for the research, they can share the cost of their R&D by outsourcing it).
(3) Public funded research should be public domain, possibly restricted to the country of development.
(4) No, the university researchers don't "pay" for the develompent by putting their time in it. They are getting payed for their time and expertise and they should be treated like any other employee.
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I can't imagine working in a standard text editor anymore. I've used Edit+ for a few years, liked it a lot, but it doesn't stand a chance against Zend Studio (my IDE of choice). Zend is by no means perfect, but having the names auto-completed and parameters reminded is a true bliss for someone with memory as bad as mine.
This is all fine and dandy, except it's based on a (wrong) assumption, that the important thing is to get people to wander around your website. The correct principle is to help people find the stuff they need quickly.
I'd guess that you either had some serious usability problems or bad content, or both. I may be wrong though.
You write, among all:
(1) No, tuition is to compensate for the cost of teaching them, it has nothing to do with software developement (or any other activity besides that connected to teaching students).
(2) If they want to, they can and the results of research funded by them should be exclusive to them, but they should be paying enough to pay for the time and knowledge of the researchers involved, and they should pay for it exclusively (although there can be more than one company paying for the research, they can share the cost of their R&D by outsourcing it).
(3) Public funded research should be public domain, possibly restricted to the country of development.
(4) No, the university researchers don't "pay" for the develompent by putting their time in it. They are getting payed for their time and expertise and they should be treated like any other employee.