On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > you might like to read: > > The case for open computer programs > Darrel C. Ince, Leslie Hatton & John Graham-Cumming
Seems it's been recommended before in the list. > > Scientific communication relies on evidence that cannot be entirely > included in publications, but the rise of computational science has > added a new layer of inaccessibility. Although it is now accepted that > data should be made available on request, the current regulations > regarding the availability of software are inconsistent. We argue that, > with some exceptions, anything less than the release of source programs > is intolerable for results that depend on computation. The vagaries of > hardware, software and natural language will always ensure that exact > reproducibility remains uncertain, but withholding code increases the > chances that efforts to reproduce results will fail. > > http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7386/full/nature10836.html Thanks, > > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120529060057.gc18...@an3as.eu > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAG9cJmkxiAQQQi1utS5Z=en56n0obpmY6i=br1cf_7h-ofg...@mail.gmail.com
