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A good article: a tweaked policy suggestin
Posted by bgoertzel
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27 Oct 2008 at 14:42 GMT
It seems to make sense to require authors of papers involving software centrally to do *one* of: A) open-source the software, B) agree to provide and maintain the software for a certain period of time. Requiring A is unfair to commercial enterprises; requiring B is unfair to individuals who may have made an important discovery but don't have time or economic resources to host/maintain software.
