Actually not probably that weird. May be a sort of impedance mismatch between academia and software scenes. It's very common in academic circles to be quite jea

Actually not probably that weird. May be a sort of impedance mismatch between academia and software scenes. It's very common in academic circles to be quite jealous of ideas, especially good ones. The academic game is often to get your name associated with some good idea, and this is what carries a researcher in their career. I find this rather counterproductive and try to avoid it myself. I'm a researcher but I have a background in software development, and especially open source. Academia is way behind software in openness, which is rather bizarre as the institutional role of academia is usually seen as providing new ideas and challenging old thinking so the community can prosper. There's some kind of a bug in the current academic culture that causes it to freeze up when it should fulfill its promise to share its findings with the world. Probably a good way to debug this thing is to follow the money and why on earth do we have these weird hats and robes?