Scientists Scramble Web Pages in Protest

Matthias L. Jugel writes "The scientists at the German National Research Center for Information Technology have scrambled their web pages to show their unrest about plans to cut down salaries by 13.5%. 86.5% of the web pages are now unreadable and it made a big bang as this was found out by the federal ministry beeing responsible for the cut-off. Especially the specific situation at an institute that employs computer scientists it makes no sense to cut salaries while most companies are looking for CS staff. It looks like that the government wants to set Germany back in computer science research. Read about the story that has found its way in the TV news "Tagesthemen" and almost all big German Newspapers today. "