I didn't mean to attack you personally - that sentiment gets echoed a lot on HN and I replied to your comment, meaning to address all of those that I read befor

I didn't mean to attack you personally - that sentiment gets echoed a lot on HN and I replied to your comment, meaning to address all of those that I read before but didn't reply to, so please don't take it personally. My area is in algorithmics, which is a lot less of a "hot topic" and there's less competition and more cooperation all-around. That may be an important factor in the willingness to share code. I do agree with you on publishing code and have open-sourced the code to some of my research. Unfortunately I never heard back from anyone, maybe my topics just aren't hot enough ;) I'm a bit unsure whether to publish code for ongoing projects (where some aspects have been published, but others are still in the works for future publications) - in that case there is some incentive to keep the source closed until the project is finished.