This alliance between science and industry is an uneasy one at best. While pharmaceutical companies can fund research at a level undreamed of in academic institutions, they also fund research with a vested interest. Computer science, too, must exist in an uneasy alliance with industry. While the rank and file of Open Source programmers are still the many computer science undergrads and graduate students around the world, more and more Open Source programmers are working in industry rather than academic settings. But there is an ominous side to the computer industry as well.
Industry can have a negative impact on innovation.
Its creators, two students at Berkeley, had left school to take jobs in industry, and left their innovation behind.