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On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:13:57 +0000 "Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) wrote: > gEDA, nor any other open-source EDA package I know (at this point in > the tool-chain), is the basis of any academic research. gEDA, probably true. Others, not true. Spice, Gnucap, and several others came out of academic research. Gnucap has been the basis of several projects in academic research, and still is. Open source and academic research have a long history of some kind of relationship. One thing that bewilders me is that most of the lesser schools vigorously shun open source, while the leaders are more likely to embrace it. Even those that embrace it rarely contribute back to the project that spawned their work. > The kind of > problems we are _still_ arguing about, and trying to solve have long > ceased to be novel areas for research. This IS true, and a major factor that drives them away. It's also a factor that divides us, so we get forks rather than collaboration. But don't forget, not all academic "research" is at the Ph.D. level, or at schools that are capable of it. There is a big opportunity in the middle. We are missing it completely, and they are too. And .. not all "academic" research is in an academic institution. Not all is in ANY institution. Open source provides such opportunities to anyone who steps up to them. Admittedly, most of those are not successful, but could be if they were nurtured.
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