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   Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 21:45:17 JST Ludovic Courtès

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   @khinsen I don’t think users of proprietary software have their needs heard just because they pay, though. There’s AFAIK hardly any communication between customers and producers of that software.

   This is the opposite of free software where users can talk to developers. Granted, it’s an investment, and users and developers need to find a “common language”, which can be hard—e.g., scientific Python.

   But what if we insisted on autonomy instead of customer relationships?

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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 21:45:19 JST Ludovic Courtès

     @khinsen I also have that feeling that we all too often remain in “small circles” in those open science events.

     I really think that #ReproducibleResearch and #OpenScience should be framed in terms of user autonomy: individuals should be able to share their articles, their experimental protocols, and their computational experiments, without relying on third-party services.