Could Climate Science Become Open Source?
Reflecting upon some of the criticisms of the contemporary ethos surrounding the "Climategate incident" at the end of 2009, we may ask whether climate science would benefit by being more firmly grounded in the principles of openness, perhaps along the lines of the free and open source software communities and open content movements. The concept of openness behind free and open source software describes a mode of creative knowledge production and sharing in which individuals and communities freely generate and adapt or remix resources (content or software) without licensing restrictions.read more
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