On Thu, 19 May 2005, McIlwrath, BK (Brian) wrote:
> For interest?
>
> Came across the following more-or-less by accident. It's Tony Linde's
> preliminary thoughts on how Astrogrid software might survive the "end of
> life" of that Project.
>
> http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Main/TonySupportProposal:
Multiple choice:
I could probably cite more problems but the end result is always
a moribund and bloated organisation whose priorities are not those
of the community it serves and a suite of software products that are
feature-rich but usefulness-poor which the community feels obliged to
use because so much of its money is spent on them.
a) Starlink
b) AstroGrid
c) other
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Mark Taylor Starlink Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK
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