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Re:If you're going to do good science, release the computer ... by RyanMcGreal on Monday February 08, 2010 @02:29PM (#1110446)
> I was told, "Because you can't trust anyone else's code. It's better to write everything from scratch so you know it's right".

I'm reminded of ESR's paraphrasing of Linus' Law regarding eyeball count and bug depth. Ten haphazard proprietary implementations are not more reliable than one battle-tested open implementation.

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Re:If you're going to do good science, release the computer ... by tensor on Monday February 08, 2010 @02:42PM (#1110469)
Given that this is a discussion about science, I have to point out that this "law" you quote is merely a hypothesis.
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