langreiter.com plain, simple: comments-2007-09-24

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Montag, 24. September 2007

'Every paper that is submitted to the journal ought to be accompanied by a tarball, containing data and source code, such that a reader can download the tarball, unpack it, and type "make" and have all of the analysis and plots reproduced locally on the reader's machine.'

The day will come.

2007-09-24-dimmiData

Ben Tremblay 6267 days AGO
But ... with respect ... isn't that just the sort of scenario TimBL was moving to obviate?

Now I'd bet that your observation is based on some substance. If I had to, I'd guess underlying it all is defensiveness and self-protection i.e. to have material accessible via 'net is to make it discoverable.

As I'm flying in stealth mode I know all about being coy ... I'll gladly give away the cream but know I risk giving away not only the cow but the whole farm!

"The first step toward an opportunity might lead to calamity."

chris 6267 days AGO
Sorry, maybe I'm being dense; in what way is that the scenario TimBL was trying to obviate? Could you elaborate a bit?

And: We're talking science and scientific publishing here, not business.

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