Marc Andelman wrote:
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> Academics are not entrepreneurs. They take no personal risk at all.
> Many have fat cat jobs. The people holding the bag are the old
> ladies swindled by the failures of flakey univeristy start ups.
>
Well, other stuff (and whether I agree with you) aside, you do provide a
good argument for pursuing an academic research career. I haven't heard
from many old ladies swindled by universities recently. Do they have a
newsgroup where they complain?
M