> Besides, many scientists look at code as a competitive advantage so in this case publishing the code will be removing the competitive advantage. This is prob

> Besides, many scientists look at code as a competitive advantage so in this case publishing the code will be removing the competitive advantage. This is probably wrong, depending on the field. At least in machine learning, the papers that get cited the most are those that other people can easily pick up and work on. They become the basis for future work, get cited as baselines more often, etc. Publishing research ML code is a competitive advantage.