[chrisseaton]

> OP is right-on as to why this is a big deal in academia.

The ACM (academic computer science group) has awarded prizes to these open source systems projects amongst others recently:

- Wireshark

- Jupyter

- GCC

- Mach

- Coq

- LLVM

- Eclipse

- make

- Java

- Tcl/Tk

The linked article is written like the academy never works on or recognises open source software or implementation work, or using open licences is unusual. That's not true.

[hobofan]

OP was talking about academia in general, and not just about CS-academia, which is of course a lot more sensitive to open source software.

In traditional (= non-CS) academia, proprietary software is still very much the norm, and as long as institutes get a free license for academic usage they also don't seem to care about open source too much. I don't know how much precedent there is, but such recognition from traditional academia still seems to be pretty rare and worthy of highlighting.

[OldGuyInTheClub]

Yes. The self-congratulation was very off putting.