Hadron wrote:
> NoStop <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Windows Goes Xen--by Proxy
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | While I typically associate Xen with Linux―since Linux is the platform
>>> | on which Xen was born and on which Xen is most often deployed―the
>>> | folks at XenSource have their aim focused most keenly on Windows. On
>>> | the Citrix investor call Aug. 15, XenSource President and CEO Peter
>>> | Levine summed up that focus well. "Our product focus is to provide the
>>> | best Microsoft Windows virtualization experience on the market," he
>>> | said.
>>> `----
>>
>> Don't you just love it when innovative products are first developed in
>> public institutions like universities (paid for by the people), then
>> commercialized and finally owned by some huge multinational corporation?
>> Smells of socialism for the rich.
>>
>> Cheers.
>
> Time have changed. Big companies sponsor a lot of R&D Labs in
> Unis as well as individual students.
>
> Very little in modern Universities (well, the science sections) are paid
> for by the people these days. A tragedy since having money
> is once again the precursor to a lot of further education in the UK.
>
> I know that my "reading list" for just the Electronics Engineering
> section of my undergraduate course ate up more money in one term than
> the reading list for English Literature students for an entire
> University course.
>
Yes, the shift to the right has resulted in lower taxes on the corporations
and rich, hence less money going from the government to the universities.
The result is that universities have been forced to go to the private
sector for funding. The whole scheme is one based on privatizing the
intellectual resources of the planet. I sure wouldn't want to be a student
today.
Cheers.
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