Open Source and Open Research Computation - Open Enterprise

"Beyond open access, which is only about a certain kind of opening up, lies true open science, which implies providing things like raw data alongside polished publications. The growing success of the open data movement - notably with the opening up of government data stores - has provided a handy impetus to this in the world of science. But there is yet another area of scientific endeavour where openness is rare: ironically, the world of scientific software. You might think that using open source licences would be an obvious thing to do, since it would allow others both to examine/check your working and build on it. But strangely many scientists are reluctant to allow this kind of scrutiny or sharing. Hoping to change that is a new journal called Open Research Computation. Its Editor-in-Chief is Cameron Neylon, probably the leading exponent of open science...."