Where's the money going to come from, and who's going to do it?
I wasn't making much above minimum wage working as a programmer at a university. People with computer science degrees don't tend to take such jobs, when they've got half the west coast waving 6-figure job offers at them.
Again, it comes down to the user and the customer not being the same person. The person reading the research paper would sure like it to have been written (or at least debugged) by an expert programmer, but it would be some department who would have to have paid for such a programmer. Departments don't have budget for that, and their currency is publication, not correctness proofs.
(I assume departments would have to pay, because we paid for all other IT services. We even had to pay the university for network access. It's not like the library, which is always free to everyone on campus.)
I wasn't making much above minimum wage working as a programmer at a university. People with computer science degrees don't tend to take such jobs, when they've got half the west coast waving 6-figure job offers at them.
Again, it comes down to the user and the customer not being the same person. The person reading the research paper would sure like it to have been written (or at least debugged) by an expert programmer, but it would be some department who would have to have paid for such a programmer. Departments don't have budget for that, and their currency is publication, not correctness proofs.
(I assume departments would have to pay, because we paid for all other IT services. We even had to pay the university for network access. It's not like the library, which is always free to everyone on campus.)