That's not surprising. The academic community has more issues than Reader's Digest. The academia is a small, petty world full of inflated egos and prone to pol

That's not surprising. The academic community has more issues than Reader's Digest. The academia is a small, petty world full of inflated egos and prone to political hysteria, with people eternally locked into zero sum games. When I moved to the private sector, it felt like a breath of fresh air. There, people will "only" try to rip you off, but given that their reputation precedes them, you will orient yourself pretty quickly and stop cooperating with the nasties, unless they are as dominant as Google or Microsoft are. You cannot do this in rigid hierarchies of the academic world.