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Re:Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014) by ragnese on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:20AM (#24482194)
That's a whole other can of worms, too. How about reproducibility and transparency? How do I know the math is correct when I don't know what MATLAB/whatever is actually doing under the hood?
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Re:Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014) by gr2zr4 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:15PM (#24482997)
Exactly!

But, moreover: how can my research be reproducible if someone else can't afford to buy that specific software? Or if the software's version I used is outdated and the updated one does not read the old one's files?

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