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		natebc 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy indeed they have. In reality they're like complicated heterogeneous investment funds with untold numbers of varying restrictions governing them. They're not just a pile of gold coins in the university presidents basement.

tetromino_ 11 months ago [–]

Indeed. Everything is earmarked, occasionally even earmarked in a way that the university cannot use the at all (e.g. something like a donation "to pay for an earnest white Christian man to teach phrenology").

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