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Of course it's not only about the price. Open and free tools are important for reproducibility of research, including computer science research, economic resear
by juliendorra 11y ago
Of course it's not only about the price. Open and free tools are important for reproducibility of research, including computer science research, economic research, etc.
Having open access articles/papers, we are now moving to open availability of data for reproducibility of results. Open tools are the third component, allowing a complete reproducibility of research, unencumbered by arbitrary lock-in.
It is then important that we teach and share open and free tool with science learners, so that as they progress they can freely share fully reproducible research, with anyone in the world.
[edit] in summary, in the age of open access, FLOSS science tools become a must -- and a collective responsibility.
- tacos 11y agoThe most important thing is giving brilliant minds the best tools, period. If those tools make it impossible to share data, or publish results reproducibly, then I'd agree that those tools suck. However Matlab reads and writes every damn format under the sun. Don't confuse "create, invent and build" with "export and publish." They're fundamentally different tasks.