My basic line of argument is fairly simple. If you work at a university and your salary is paid via taxes you have an obligation to make your work available to the taxpayers.
This means the software you write should be open sourced and the papers and articles you write should be freely available.
I'll use the basic idea of this article as more fodder for that argument (it's even more important now because...Big Data ZOMG) in the future :)
I don't fully agree with the thought that writing software and papers are exclusive. With a little creativity you can get a paper or two out of most academic software development projects (granted they won't usually be the A-level "this advances my discipline" kind of papers but one can't only write those anyways imo).
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My basic line of argument is fairly simple. If you work at a university and your salary is paid via taxes you have an obligation to make your work available to the taxpayers.
This means the software you write should be open sourced and the papers and articles you write should be freely available.
I'll use the basic idea of this article as more fodder for that argument (it's even more important now because...Big Data ZOMG) in the future :)
I don't fully agree with the thought that writing software and papers are exclusive. With a little creativity you can get a paper or two out of most academic software development projects (granted they won't usually be the A-level "this advances my discipline" kind of papers but one can't only write those anyways imo).
If I work at intelligence agency and my work is paid by taxpayers, should the results of it also be available to the public?