nicely put :-) A
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Pjotr Prins <[email protected]>wrote: > Is that idea of getting scooped realistic? > > All my code is online, that is my scientific track record, next to my > papers. > > Online OSS code may bring benefits when other people find bugs, or > even improve things. I don't worry about getting scooped. First it is > easy to prove it is mine, exactly because it is out in the open, and > second it takes more than plain old code to get something published in > a journal. > > In the rare case an idea is so sensitive and easy to copy, you can > publish it with some part missing. > > I think too much code sits on planks gathering dust, just because > people have these worries. It is old school. We are in the business > of moving science forward - writing beautiful tools. Nothing less. > > Pj. > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:48:32AM -0700, Andreas Prlic wrote: > > > Forgive me for being pessimistic, but I do not believe you can > > > publically distribute your code without running the risk of being > > > scooped. Mark's suggestions are very good; however, the safest route > > > would be to withhold distribution of your code until your work is > > > published (or at very least accepted). > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Andreas Prlic Senior Scientist, RCSB PDB Protein Data Bank University of California, San Diego (+1) 858.246.0526 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
