The more full quote: > Imagine if scientists kept the result of every scientific study to themselves. The same work would have to be done over and over again a

The more full quote: > Imagine if scientists kept the result of every scientific study to themselves. The same work would have to be done over and over again as everyone was forced to reinvent the wheel countless times to do anything at all. Computer scientists do exactly this, as it's possible to publish while withholding your source-code. This is harmful not only in that effort is wasted reimplementing published algorithms, but also in that the reader is deprived of the ability to check the source-code for bugs that might impact the published results. This topic has cropped up before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24261706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24261706