Why open source is critical to innovation in science | Abhishek Bajpayee

Abstract

We live in a world where, due to the growing power of computers and software, software is starting to drive the vast majority of scientific research. However, many fields in science still have a culture of not sharing software that research is based on. This, in turn, slows down the innovation process and ends up wasting a lot of taxpayer money for recreation of software that has already been written. Therefore, we must adopt the open source culture in science as soon as possible in order to maximize collaboration and innovation to solve problems and make new discoveries.