In Academia lots of this software is built by doctorate or postdoc students with limited contracts - they are gone after a short while. In many other places the

In Academia lots of this software is built by doctorate or postdoc students with limited contracts - they are gone after a short while. In many other places the people writing software outside of IT departments are typically staying longer with the company. Question now is: which is better? In one case there is a single "God" in the other it's passed on for generations, while everybody mostly cares about their research and not long term maintainability.