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I think the big one is the lack of incentives. Publishing your code costs time in terms of getting it polished for public use, money by way of time. And it has
by Fomite 13y ago
I think the big one is the lack of incentives.
Publishing your code costs time in terms of getting it polished for public use, money by way of time. And it has very little benefit - you've lost exclusive rights to a publication platform, and Github doesn't show up in tenure portfolios.
- glomph 13y agoIn an ideal world the additional citations that public source code created would counter some of these problems I guess.
- Fomite 13y agoThe existence of papers about software is a decent step in the right direction, but it needs: a. People to cite what software they used way more heavily than they do (this includes me). b. The effort to be rewarded in and of itself. A paper, cited or not, is credit. There's a huge leap of faith that, after all the time prepping software for release that anyone will use it.