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

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Dear Rainer

As stated by Markus actually the letter on the Four Freedoms is free on-line in the TREE site at:
PDF: http://download.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/pdf/PIIS0169534712000742.pdf

Thanks for your comment on our letter: “very succinct letter which brings the issue to the point: Science should use open software.”.

This is exactly our aim and we are fighting to publish free code for statistical analysis of spatial data, which in most cases is not considered the bulk of a paper but only its appendix!!

My very best!

Duccio

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Duccio Rocchini, PhD

http://gis.cri.fmach.it/rocchini/

Fondazione Edmund Mach
Research and Innovation Centre
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Via Mach 1, 38010 San Michele all’Adige (TN) - Italy
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Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 11:29:11 +0200
From: Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
Subject: [GRASS-user] Interesting Letter in tree which nentions GRASS
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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

Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys.
(Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
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email: Rainer@krugs.de

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For the problem, it is interesting to read

"Academics have protested against Elsevier's business practices for years
with little effect. These are some of their objections..." and a petition
http://thecostofknowledge.com/ The Cost of Knowledge

and the position of the journal *Nature*

"Here is a nice Nature Perspective about how journals should require that
researchers make not only their data but their software public. They
acknowledge that differences in hardware, operating systems, and
dependencies could still be an issue in reproducing someone else's data but
that that shouldn't keep people from making it public"
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal...ture10836.html The case for open
computer programs

Pdf available http://www.runmycode.org/data/MetaSite/upload/nature10836.pdf
http://www.runmycode.org/data/MetaSite/upload/nature10836.pdf

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