sure. i will email him and paste the response here.
"collaboration" is not the right word i think (judging for the link).. perhaps "supplier" is more like it. its seems grossly overestimated...
ive worked with academia before... if you remotely help someone out with cutting edge research your name lands the published material... even if the collaboration was minimal... or you get acknowledged at the end...
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