@UlrikeHahn @brembs @jonny @dstephenlindsay @roaldarboel For reference, this is a major gripe of mine.
I think that over time academia has become very sensitive to corporate capture (and hype cycles). Where commercial services are no longer the means, but the end.
Most in academia are (blissfully) unaware of many of the dynamics at play (touching on business accounting, economics, philosophy of science, and IP law).