Even if you're overoptimistic by a factor of five and it's only a 20% savings we'd hire you tomorrow to build that for us. You can have a plane ticket to wherever you want to work and the best hardware money can buy and real engineering support to deploy something you've already mostly built and proven. [...]

And we look at that and say: what if you've got nothing? How can we know, without something we can audit and test? Of course, all the supporting research is paywalled PDFs with no concomitant code or data either, so by any metric that matters -- and the only metric that matters here is "code I can run against data I can verify" -- it doesn't exist.

Those aren't metrics that matter to you, though. What matters to you is either "getting a tenure-track position" or "getting hired to do work in your field". And by and large the academic tenure track doesn't care about open access, so you're afraid that actually showing your work will actively hurt your likelihood of getting either of those jobs.

So here we are in this bizarro academic-research standoff, where I can’t work with you without your tipping your hand, and you can’t tip your hand for fear I won’t want to work with you. And so all of this work that could accomplish amazing things for a real company shipping real software that really matters to real people – five or six years of the best work you’ve ever done, probably – just sits on the shelf rotting away.

Previously, previously.