* Shudders * In recent years the shifts reduction of public funding levels combined with a cultural shift toward emulating business models and proving ROI has, IMHO, stilted creativity, exploration, and the creation of basic fundamental science. An analogous situation would be tons of grant money spent on Rails-like frameworks (because it&#x27;s &#x27;hot&#x27;) while fundamental projects like &quot;rewriting a safe glibc&quot; would be deemed lacking in utility.