The author of the article seems to think that those involved are all unique butterflies simply because they write software in an academic environment. Sure, wr

The author of the article seems to think that those involved are all unique butterflies simply because they write software in an academic environment. Sure, writing software in academia is a lot different than in a business setting. But guess what?! There's a TON of software written in academia! The vast majority of all models that ever get written are done in academia like nuclear simulation models or geological models or whatever. In college I worked in high performance computing which led me to write software in academia for blast simulations and for genetic sequence alignment. Both share lots of the traits that the author outlined, but neither had to do with climate. Just because your situation isn't a business doesn't mean you're unique.