Should Software Hold Data Hostage ?  

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Wiley, H. Steven ; Michaels, George S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Nature Biotechnology: The Science and Business of Biotechnology vol. 22 no. 8 (Agu. 2004), page 1037-1038.
Topik: software; software; data hostage

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Software tools have become an indispensable part of modern biology, but issues surrounding propriety file formats and closed software architectures threaten to stunt the growth of this rapidly expanding area of research. In an effort to ensure continuous software upgrades to provide a continuous income stream, some software companies have resorted to holding the user's data hostage by locking them into proprietary file and data formats. Although this might make sense from a business perspectives, it violates fundamental principles of data ownership and control. Such tactics should not be tolerated by the scientific community. The future of data intensive biology depends on ensuring open data standards and freely exchangeable file formats.

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