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> Open data, especially if you're sharing in real time, makes you vulnerable to being scooped by competing researchers. Why did something like standards and pa
by JPLeRouzic 4y ago
> Open data, especially if you're sharing in real time, makes you vulnerable to being scooped by competing researchers.
Why did something like standards and patents didn't emerge in the scientific world?
- airstrike 4y agoNo economic incentive
- barry-cotter 4y agoThe scientific world rewards people in glory and honor much more than money. If you want more money go corporate. If you want to reward people more with money then they’ll pay less attention to the glory but that’s really expensive.
- carapace 4y agoIt's not needed. Scientists are gentlemen. E.g. in ~1900 three different people, Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg, discovered the laws of genetics, checked the literature, and found the work of Mendel. Each of them credited Mendel.