This is what happens when lawyers run your company. I was funded out of a John Deere Technology Innovation Center (JDTIC) during my PhD. Their approach to data

This is what happens when lawyers run your company. I was funded out of a John Deere Technology Innovation Center (JDTIC) during my PhD. Their approach to data was what ultimately pushed me to quit the program and go back to work. Everything was priceless and proprietary, yet nothing ever was done with it. They insisted all research conducted by students was performed on their computers, which in itself was only annoying. The part that killed it (in addition to the promise of field data that never came after several years on the project) was that every library installed had to be approved by their IT security team. I kid you not: the datetime library in Perl was not allowed. On the upside, quitting the PhD has been an awesome decision, so I guess I should thank them.