Naive advice. It seems the author is paid primarily to work on a software package for the biology field, which I think skews his view on the applicability of hi

Naive advice. It seems the author is paid primarily to work on a software package for the biology field, which I think skews his view on the applicability of his advice for other scientists, for whom software is usually just a tool rather than a goal in itself. Take for example " If your software is too complex to obtain and operate or can only run on one platform, then few people will bother to try it out," Seriously? He expects people to run, let alone test, support and document their code on multiple platforms? There is no grant money in doing such mundane tasks, not to mention that maintenance of such is boring and orthogonal to the original research. Most of his advice seems to stem from ideological views re: open source software rather than from an attempt to help scientists or science in general.