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TFA: > Democratizing the Tools > We love that corporations are doing all this work, but we don’t love the fact that the opportunity to share information is as
by heybrendan 5y ago
TFA:
> Democratizing the Tools
> We love that corporations are doing all this work, but we don’t love the fact that the opportunity to share information is asymmetric,” Lungren says. “If they amass data but then lock it down, they will be the only ones who can innovate, which would shut out the important contributions by computer scientists and clinicians around the world. That’s not a position we want to be in.”
Uh huh.
Let's scrutinize the "Stanford University School of Medicine MURA: MSK Xrays Dataset Research User Agreement":
> By registering for downloads [...] you are agreeing to this Research Use Agreement [...]
Hiding downloads behind a registration. We're off to a FANTASTIC start. /s
> YOU MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE, PUBLISH, OR REPRODUCE A COPY of any portion or all of the MURA: MSK Xrays Dataset to others without specific prior written permission from the School of Medicine.
> YOU MAY NOT SHARE THE DOWNLOAD LINK to the MURA: MSK Xrays dataset to others.
You know what? I'm going to stop there. The agreement becomes increasingly more hostile.
Someone please inform Stanford on what "Democratizing" actually means.
It's a hard pass from me.
- jb_s 5y agodoesn't sound very "open source movement"
- lasagnaphil 5y agoTo make things worse, the site doesn't work unless you disable Ublock Origin (and even when it works it's goddamn slow), and for some reason you get a location access request from your browser right when you click an entry (is there any reason they have to collect geographic data for a download link?)