{"id":1122,"date":"2007-12-29T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T15:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/29\/i-told-you-so-open-source-is-b\/"},"modified":"2007-12-29T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T15:56:54","slug":"i-told-you-so-open-source-is-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/29\/i-told-you-so-open-source-is-b\/","title":{"rendered":"I told you so &#8230; open source is better."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t use closed source proprietary software such as Mathematica for research because that would cause there to be <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/opensource_math_opinion_essay.php\">a Black Box in your Research Methodology?<\/a>But you didn&#8217;t listen.Now, Miquel Pais (via the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pontiff\/2007\/12\/mathematica_bug.php\">Quantum Pontiff<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelpais.com\/site\/view\/8\">reports <\/a> a bug in Mathematica that can&#8217;t be understood because you can&#8217;t look under the hood.This is a disaster.  But not an unexpected disaster.You must now all switch to Open Source software for your research purposes.  I&#8217;m not kidding.  Get on that right away.That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t use closed source proprietary software such as Mathematica for research because that would cause there to be a Black Box in your Research Methodology?But you didn&#8217;t listen.Now, Miquel Pais (via the Quantum Pontiff) reports a bug in Mathematica that can&#8217;t be understood because you can&#8217;t look under the hood.This is a disaster. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/29\/i-told-you-so-open-source-is-b\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I told you so &#8230; open source is better.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[130],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-i6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}