recently i participated in this out-of-context exchange: In article <N6uTg.18275$Ij.16044@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>, "Phlip" <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote: !! galathaea wrote: !! > a friend of mine has actually sent emails to the NIST !! > asking for CVS access to their simulations !! > and she has never received a response !! !! The disinformation campaign also has the pleasant benefit of overloading our !! stressed government agencies with all kinds of unwise requests. now i have followed phlip's responses for several years (among other great posters in the comp newsgroups) and have learned much from the lurking however i never would have expected this response from one who has often promoted the virtues of reuse to be clear the request was for read-only CVS access (or equivalent source control or copy of source) to simulations that she wanted to experiment with the source was from a government agency doing public research there were two principles at play in the request: 1) reuse of algorithms helps save time in scientific simulations 2) nonclassified governmental software should be opensource principle 1 was one of the points behind the object revolution and is one of the key benefits of declarative style many agile technologies promote methods of reuse principle 2 could be the controversial one but many fields of scientific research require openness of models in order to peer review i am confused at the request being deemed unwise so here are my questions: a) are there characteristics of physical simulations that make reuse less advantageous in development? ii) is principle 2 a valid extention of the principles behind other commonly opensource advocated governmental software like that of voting? 3) does the response to any of these questions change if this request is for simulations of the collapse of the world trade 7 building on 2001-september-11? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- galathaea: prankster, fablist, magician, liar
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