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A scientific basis for Open Source SoftwareA scientific basis for Open Source SoftwarePosted May 21, 2012 23:30 UTC (Mon) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432)In reply to: A scientific basis for Open Source Software by zooko Parent article: A scientific basis for Open Source Software
> I've seen her waste months of her precious time trying to figure out why
> published (and widely cited) results don't match up with their published > algorithm. These are the kinds of questions that could be easily answered > by examining source code and/or by experimenting on the executable, but > are more or less impossible to answer without access to either.
Spot on. I also spent months and months of time trying to unsuccessfully reproduce results. The only difference from you wife's situation is that I at least got a dissertation chapter out of it. :)
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