joe12321

I always wonder about areas like yours where there are big corporations holding significant intellectual capital, how that affects the academic side.

For instance, surely Adobe knows a lot about image processing. Does that put academic researchers a step behind them because of trade secrets and what not? Or is the cutting edge of this stuff shared fairly well?

Followup: in your field how closely to you hold your own work? I know in other fields (e.g. biology) researchers will share unpublished progress somewhat freely in seminars and the like. Is it the same in your work, or do you have to protect mathematiical ideas a little more?

And less back and forth. With two giant blades waving around it don't take long for someone to get cut! As much as I love Scaramouche...

Oh definitely. I was only speaking to their perspective and why they might not mind talking about it! "What're the federales gonna do about it? I'm the bottom line out here in unincorporated Kane County, Illi-noise!"

The current Kickstarter campaign happens to have a goal of 28k... do you feel like you need less this time, or did you set it low to ensure funding with the belief that you were likely to exceed your goal?

If they're true believers it's not an abuse of power.