>> Besides, many scientists look at code as a competitive advantage so in this case publishing the code will be removing the competitive advantage. That "compe

>> Besides, many scientists look at code as a competitive advantage so in this case publishing the code will be removing the competitive advantage. That "competitive advantage" is just holding everyone back, slowing progress. This is particularly annoying to hear coming from "research" which I thought was supposed to be advancing the state of the art for the benefit of society. That's ostensibly the reason for publishing papers right, to disseminate knowledge? Or is it really just to increase ones ego and get paid? Not saying you should publish code, just that deliberately keeping secrets in your field seems to go against what I thought you were doing.