“Computer science increasingly relies on its private corporate patrons who apply their own closed systems of peer review and criticism, with occasional results thrown over the wall. The closed walls of Redmond or Mountain View enable old-fashioned patronage of nature's secrets. The objectivity and scientific status of computer science is a chimera: we cannot stand on the shoulders of giants in computer science, for they simply refuse to let us.” ScienceComputer ScienceOpen Source Book:Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software Source: Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software