The case for free and open source software in research and scholarship

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Title: The case for free and open source software in research and scholarship

Study Link: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2020.0079
Citation: @doi:10.1098/rsta.2020.0079

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In this paper, the intersection between FOSS (free and open source software) and computational reproducibility is discussed and...

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