I recommend reading the post; interesting points wrt why grant-funded software projects may be weaker out of the gate (and less likely to become crucial infrastructure, especially long-term) than peer-production projects
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"'How many software packages that are central to science were made as a result of grants?' I hope (and imagine) the answer is not zero, but I am not familiar with any examples."https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1214620497318559744 …
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that’s the core point of the article - the author thinks more funding should go to maintaining popular projects, rather than starting new ones
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BLAS, LINPACK, LAPACK...
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One example is Micro-Manager, which I worked on for a few years. It was funded by NIH grants. Used by bioscience laboratories to control light microscopes. http://www.microscopist.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/mb1420.pdf …
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ImageJ 100%, and some part of related things like SciJava, SCIFIO.
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Sounds like something
@nayafia might knowhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1214642802656563200 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The software that enabled the internet was funded by DARPA. Maybe this one example alone justifies a few decades of false starts in other areas?
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