1. These folks live or die by the status of the next grant. Most of them are not motivated by money, but rather by keeping a lab open, with a steady stream of s

1. These folks live or die by the status of the next grant. Most of them are not motivated by money, but rather by keeping a lab open, with a steady stream of students flowing through it. Let's not forget that there is more than one goal in science (solve problems, feed family, train more scientists/engineers/technicians/etc). 2. Their job is to solve scientific problems, not solve them in ways that make computing folk feel good. 3. Arguably the scientist who wastes time fretting about the technical details of software rather than their research or their grant, is the short sighted one.