Comment by phkahler
>> Reading between the lines the change is a response to political pressure to reduce costs and impose restrictions on curricula.
Reduce costs by spending huge amounts of money to lose capability? This smells like someone got an "incentive" to spend public (govt) money on some corporate project. Not sure why anyone wants to impose restrictions on curricula, but that'd be a kind of separate thing.
>Not sure why anyone wants to impose restrictions on curricula
I won't get too political, but that's the one part of this story that only got worse and more blatant over the decade since this posting.