From lab to libre software: how can academic software research become open source?
From lab to libre software: how can academic software research become open source?
[Front] Posted Oct 25, 2017 13:31 UTC (Wed) by andyo
Academics generate enormous amounts of software, some of which inspires commercial innovations in networking and other areas. But little academic software gets released to the public and even less enters common use. Is some vast "dark matter" being overlooked in the academic community? Would the world benefit from academics turning more of their software into free and open projects?