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Other things that the private folks have: talk more openly about their code, share their code under permissive licenses, routinely encourage others to learn mor
by angersock 12y ago
Other things that the private folks have: talk more openly about their code, share their code under permissive licenses, routinely encourage others to learn more and help each other, reuse other people's code to build new things, specifically encourage development practices that scale horizontally, etc.
I wouldn't mind if we decided to start funding researchers on the public dime, full-time, but they had better do a damned sight better in terms of professionalism and communication and openness.
Also, the entire journal structure needs to be burned to the fucking ground.
- cryoshon 12y agoThe journal structure is quite destructive, but I think it's clear that we're in the midst of a major internet-driven disruption and trend toward openness. Many papers are published to reputable free journals these days. I'd like it if the non-financial aspects of the journal structure remained the same, so as to group ideas/editorial groups/communities together, preserving the unique character of each journal and allowing people producing papers to target their submissions accurately. Freeness and openness of the information contained within is a must, though-- proprietary journal information is a racket which helps nobody.