[GRASS-user] Interesting Letter in tree which nentions GRASS

Rainer_M_Krug · May 22, 2012, 9:29am

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Hi

There is an interesting letter by Duccio Rocchini and Markus Neteler in "Trends in Ecology and
Evolution" on use of open software in science and research which also mentions GRASS:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534712000742

Unfortunately it is behind a paywall.

Markus - would it be possible to blog this letter somewhere if the copyright permits?

But anyway - very succinct letter which brings the issue to the point: Science should use open
software.

Cheers,

Rainer

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neteler · May 22, 2012, 11:34am

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi

There is an interesting letter by Duccio Rocchini and Markus Neteler in "Trends in Ecology and
Evolution" on use of open software in science and research which also mentions GRASS:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534712000742

Unfortunately it is behind a paywall.

Amuzingly, on the TREE website itself, it is freely available

HTML: http://tinyurl.com/tree-four-freedoms
PDF: http://download.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/pdf/PIIS0169534712000742.pdf

...

But anyway - very succinct letter which brings the issue to the point: Science should use open
software.

Thanks!
Markus

Rainer_M_Krug · May 22, 2012, 11:46am

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On 22/05/12 13:34, Markus Neteler wrote:

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi

There is an interesting letter by Duccio Rocchini and Markus Neteler in "Trends in Ecology
and Evolution" on use of open software in science and research which also mentions GRASS:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534712000742

Unfortunately it is behind a paywall.

Amuzingly, on the TREE website itself, it is freely available

HTML: http://tinyurl.com/tree-four-freedoms PDF:
http://download.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/pdf/PIIS0169534712000742.pdf

...

Now this is really funny - somebody is making money from freely available content (ScienceDirect
wants to have 37.95$ for it) ...

Thanks a lot for pointing this out,