While I agree in general that opening up opportunities for academic-industry collaboration is good, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s practical for academics to work on problems at true industry scale. Academics don&#x27;t have access to the resources, personnel, or funding required to do that kind of work. An academic lab can do many things of relevance to industry -- but not everything.<p>Google recently open sourced its TensorFlow plstform specifically to enable researchers (and others) to build upon and improve it -- trying to avoid the problem with MapReduce (where a bunch of clones came out that were, at least initially, inferior to the original).