[LINK] InnAus: 'CSIRO boss explains why seL4 team was dumped'

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Mon Jun 7 14:50:51 AEST 2021


CSIRO boss explains why seL4 team was dumped
Denham Sadler
Innovation Aus
4 June 2021
https://www.innovationaus.com/csiro-boss-explains-why-sel4-team-was-dumped/

CSIRO chief executive Dr Larry Marshall has explained why the agency
sensationally dumped the team behind the seL4 microkernel, saying he did
not believe it was feasible to spin out the research in Australia and
that it didn’t fit with the agency’s new focus on AI.
...

[ Why is it that the word 'cloud-seeding' popped into my mind? ]


[ Marshall also said "The challenge with that technology is it is very
mature and it’s open-source, so it’s difficult to see an opportunity to
build industry or to drive a national benefit there".

[ So, um, no-one's *ever* worked out a way to make money by building on
an open-source project, not even by offering customised extensions and
services, and interleaving teams and expertise? ]


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