From chemistry-request "-at-" server.ccl.net Mon Mar 19 12:57:56 2001 Received: from admin.cnrs-orleans.fr ([163.9.1.2]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f2JHvuD19737 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:57:56 -0500 Received: from chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr (chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr [163.9.6.107]) by admin.cnrs-orleans.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.2) with ESMTP id SAA08533 ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:57:54 +0100 (MET) Received: (from hinsen "-at-" localhost) by chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA04714; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:55:06 +0100 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:55:06 +0100 Message-Id: <200103191755.SAA04714 /at\chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr> X-Authentication-Warning: chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr: hinsen set sender to hinsen %-% at %-% cnrs-orleans.fr using -f From: Konrad Hinsen To: chemistry:~at~:ccl.net In-reply-to: <062801c0af8d$f9300fe0$b9ac323f%!at!%josiah> (dalke%!at!%acm.org) Subject: Re: CCL:DCD and software reuse (was Qmol: Molecular viewer for Windows) References: <062801c0af8d$f9300fe0$b9ac323f: at :josiah> > I don't know what can be done to limit this (in my mind) > needless duplication of effort. Open Source code would be an important first step. In fact, I do not understand why this concept isn't standard for academic applications. Much academic code is already free, so why not take the next step and make it freely redistributable, also in modified form? And for those academic packages that are not free, I seriously doubt that they are in any sense profitable. If Open Source were common in computational chemistry, then probably there would also be corresponding Web sites that organize and catalogue development efforts (perhaps even the same that take care of OpenSource development in other application domains). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsen- at -cnrs-orleans.fr Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.56.24 Rue Charles Sadron | Fax: +33-2.38.63.15.17 45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/ France | Nederlands/Francais -------------------------------------------------------------------------------