Availability of the source code should soon become the minimum standard for academic software. In addition, culture should shift to embrace code review and appropriate credit for the developers of reusable software.
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I would like to thank R. Di Remigio, E. Graham, K. T. Wikfeldt, A. C. Fouilloux and the CodeRefinery team for critically commenting on the draft of this Comment and in addition thank the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) for funding the CodeRefinery project.
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Bast, R. A FAIRer future. Nat. Phys. 15, 728–730 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0624-3
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