Why academic software should be Open Source

Authors :: Paumier, Sébastien
Ligm, Lingu
Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge (LIGM)
Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-ESIEE Paris-Fédération de Recherche Bézout-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Fédération de Recherche Bézout-ESIEE Paris-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM)
Source :: INFOtheca : Journal of Information and Library Science, INFOtheca : Journal of Information and Library Science, Serbian Academic Library Association, 2009, 10 (1-2), pp.51-54
Publication Year :: 2009
Publisher :: HAL CCSD, 2009.
Abstract: International audience; Everyone has heard about "free software" and "open source", but what those terms actually mean is not always very clear, even for people that produce software. First of all, I will briefly explain those terms, and the reader will see that the open source philosophy has many ideas in common with Science. Then, I will define what I mean by "academic software" and I will present some arguments in order to show that Science would benefit a lot if scientists that produce software released them as open source

Subjects :: [INFO.INFO-CL] Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL]
[INFO.INFO-CL]Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL]

Language :: English
ISSN :: 14509687 and 22179461
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: INFOtheca : Journal of Information and Library Science, INFOtheca : Journal of Information and Library Science, Serbian Academic Library Association, 2009, 10 (1-2), pp.51-54
Accession number :: edsair.dedup.wf.001..21d914ddf511926b3d3bc8bee2ea80d6

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