On 25 Nov 2013, at 09:19, phil@highoctane.be wrote:

Exactly. This researcher/industry - lab/delivery is always present, no matter where one goes.

I was thinking more along the lines of:

Investing in the industry

Thousands of vendors depend on Intel� processors for product development. To help them forge ahead with new product advancements, Intel invests heavily in research that drives innovations at the silicon level and establishes new, industry-wide standards. Combined with the predictability of Intel�s tick-tock model, these efforts promote faster, more efficient innovation throughout the industry�year-in and year-out.

Yes, and tick-tock as well as research all happens in parallel.

Now how can we get the resource to do that?

In the end, the �stable/unstable� is very much like a tick/tock: we release, when we find problems in the release (and we find a fix�) we fix the release (tik),

while working in tok (big change).

It would be better to have payed teams for both�