[Bukhmanizer]

I'll be a bit vague to protect my coworker's privacy, but the scientist was fired for other, unrelated violations, and my boss was brought in to replace him. I think he was leading an arm of a "U" grant, so he wasn't the only senior PI on it. Since they handled it internally, they couldn't just demand a reimbursement. On some level administration knew that the project wasn't moving forward, but once we started asking around, it was clear that there was no effort to start the project at all.

>But I totally agree that maintaining software that people are using should be funded and rewarded by the academic communities. A possible way to do this is have a supplement so that after a grant is over, people who have software generated from the grant that is used by at least 10 external parties without COI, should be funded 100K/yr for however many years they are willing to maintain and improve it. Definitions of what this means needs to be carefully constructed, of course.

I think that this is a great idea.