So many who are involved with our project are unfamiliar with, or untrusting of, the underlying rules of research projects like these. Netscape, as a company, hires many, many product developers, but few researchers. Netscape wants results, deliverables, execution. It's not clear to product-oriented managers exactly what value research can add. Often, researchers are asked to produce product deliverables, rather than to chase the results of exploration.
Frustration results on both sides because there is a mismatch of expectations.
And the Linux community is almost anti-academic, charging that academics create unportable and unmaintainable code. Their suspicion is that once the measurements are taken and the simulations have completed, an academic's usefulness is finished. An academic never had to work with development methodolgy, defect counts, coding conventions, software portability issues, or within the constraints of a market. The Linux kernel learning curve The learning curve is still steep. Developers often don't respond to e-mail, problem reports, or technical questions because they are busy, or for other reasons.