> In the modern era, why shouldn’t research colleges and journals maintain a digital database of data, design documents, and code? Because the incentive in aca

> In the modern era, why shouldn’t research colleges and journals maintain a digital database of data, design documents, and code? Because the incentive in academia is to take a single idea that kinda works and parcel it out into as many, generally low quality, published papers as you can. The moment you release the data somebody else can start parceling out those papers instead of you.