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Posted by Mikio L. Braun on February 16, 2010
Daniel Lemire has an interesting blog post on whether open sourcing your software affects your competitiveness as a researcher.
In short, here is his summary:
- Sharing can’t hurt the small fish.
- Sharing your code makes you more convincing.
- Source code helps spread your ideas faster.
- Sharing raises your profile in industry.
- You write better software if you share it.
Which is very much in line with why we started the whole initiative in the first place.
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Interesting post. Reminded me of the concept of reproducible research as promoted by Donoho et al. (http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~wavelab/Wavelab_850/wavelab.pdf).