[TimSchumann]

While I agree with your, let's call them reservations, about the quality of said software written by scientists who are not professional software engineers -- I still believe it would be a net benefit to the world if Congress tied all federally funded research dollars to an open source license, up to and including disclosure on hardware specifications and firmware source code.

I've got a friend on the data science/visibility team at CERN, and she has some fun stories. It's absurd to me that the reproducibility path for so much modern day research in nearly every field passes through proprietary closed source software, proprietary pre-compiled signed binaries, ditto for firmware, and then (sometimes) hardware where the entirety of the documentation consists of 'A service contract with the vendor'.

The reproducibility crisis in the sciences right now is essentially an excess of inputs and deficit of testing those inputs -- closed source hardware/software is not helping.