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by gr2zr4 2108 days ago
He is right and it's the very same reason why open-source and free-software should be used in scientific research.
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That's a whole other can of worms, too. How about reproducibility and transparency? How do I know the math is correct when I don't know what MATLAB/whatever is actually doing under the hood?
Exactly!

But, moreover: how can my research be reproducible if someone else can't afford to buy that specific software? Or if the software's version I used is outdated and the updated one does not read the old one's files?