The article is just really poor, and mostly shows the author's complete lack of knowledge on how science is done, and even what it is about. One the biggest rea

The article is just really poor, and mostly shows the author's complete lack of knowledge on how science is done, and even what it is about. One the biggest reason for not opening your code is to avoid given an unfair advantage to other researchers: academic research is extremely competitive, and the risk for free ride is significant. I am all for opening tools more, but I don't think reproducibility is the reason for it. In any case, reproducibility does not mean everyone using the same software (with the same bugs) - it means independent experiments.