I think this post has gotten far off the tracks of what the OP was asking about. On the topic of open/closed source software and science -- I don't think software that is "closed source" should be published upon. For instance, if I had developed a new algorithm and software package to assemble DNA and wanted to publish that in a journal it should be required that the source be open. However, there is nothing at all scientific about a plasmid viewer or web sequence viewer. It is a general productivity tool which basically amounts to "looking at something on a computer". It's no different than a program like excel or powerpoint or photoshop.
-- If Cathal was referring to the first scenario, that is a very mainstream viewpoint. If Cathal believes that the only software used in science should be opensource freeware, that is far away from the position of most scientists I have worked with.
On Monday, April 18, 2016 at 7:46:09 PM UTC-4, Jake wrote:
On Monday, April 18, 2016 at 7:46:09 PM UTC-4, Jake wrote:
Sure, and if discrepancies or outright fraud were involved then it would be appropriate to try and drill down to that level. It would still be far easier to just compare black box X results with open source Y solution to validate or discredit the result.It would be nice if science got a substantial fraction of what the military does, but even then it would be unfortunate to squander it on unimportant minutiae like this.
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