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As long as society continues to reward individuals for generating new research, individuals will, out of necessity, keep their research materials private until
by eob 12y ago
As long as society continues to reward individuals for generating new research, individuals will, out of necessity, keep their research materials private until they have finished extracting personal gain from it. Otherwise they would go through all the pain of working on a problem only to have someone swoop in 10% before it's complete and cross the finish line holding a borrowed baton.
- dnautics 12y agoIf it's done in the open, it's pretty trivial to figure that out and the person who swooped in runs the risk of being shamed. The few egregious cases of this I can think of (Leo paquette and Armando Cordova) only were able to operate because of siloed work and secrecy; and still they got exposed.
- fred_durst 12y ago> only to have someone swoop in 10% before it's complete and cross the finish line holding a borrowed baton Indeed, Github can't be expected to, nor is it capable of, fixing one of the larger flaws in neoclassical economics.