Although I like to commit a lot of my code on GitHub and allow people to use it freely, after all my experiences in the “industry” I am uncomfortable with actually documenting the work I’ve done.
Mainly, it is because of all those people who want to imitate concepts from my design without attribution.
From my actions, I have criticized people like Chris Doran, but I still acknowledge and reference his works as influential, because I did study those works.
I am deeply disappointed with the Julia “community” and the scientific “community” for all this.
Originally, I was excited about documenting things, but that excitement faded away after many repeat plagiarism instances.
It feels like there are countless people just waiting to imitate and copy everything I do, which is not a comfortable feeling, because I am not seeing any other behavior. This is the main and primary behavior I am seeing on repeat: plagiarism and imitating and competition instead of collaborations.
The “community” has given me the impression that they will not respect my authorship, or acknowledge that they are inspired by my designs. They want to pretend I dont exist, yet they are taking notes and inspiration from my designs without attribution.
Let’s not forget that at JuliaCon 2019, somebody from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics was supposed to review my paper. Instead, they didn’t review my paper but made a mediocre imitation project, after tricking me into revealing more information on a video call. Very sociopathic.