I agree with the writer, in many ways. But it's going to be a huge uphill battle. I'm on the other side of this, too, as a researcher in algorithms. Earlier th

I agree with the writer, in many ways. But it's going to be a huge uphill battle. I'm on the other side of this, too, as a researcher in algorithms. Earlier this year, I submitted the first paper I've ever written, in which I would consider some related code to be an essential part of my research. Now, consider what this means. - I had some spend a lot of time getting the code into shape. Documentation, general clean-up, etc. This was time I could have spent writing other papers. Publication output is a huge determining factor in academic tenure & promotion decisions. Seriously, the way things are now, you're asking people to risk not getting tenure, in order that you might have their code. - The idea of a published paper, is a permanent record of the research. Repositories for code that are of a similar permanent nature, are few & far between. Some journals are starting to allow arbitrary attachments to papers, which can them be obtained online. I submitted my paper -- along with the code -- to such a journal. But this greatly restricted the list of journals I could submit to. And it pretty much left out all of the truly prestigious ones. Again, a problem.