EDITOR—Hutchon in his article showed the benefits of publishing raw data on line.1 The method of opening up raw data for research has strong parallels to the “open source” movement of the software industry, where developers freely distribute the source code and allow usage and modification.2 The open source community has learnt that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see source, and everybody else must …