[jonbronson]

I worked at a productive computing research institute for a number of a years. I cannot count the number of times I found research teams duplicating critical algorithms. Research Scientists not only pay the price of the spaghetti nature of the code, they pay it over and over again by not sharing and improving on what has already been built by previous research groups.

The software industry has its own share of problems, but from what I've seen the research community is still largely operating on an outdated software model that shuns open collaboration out of fear of being "scooped".