Software is a Method (Meme)

1. it provides a recipe to approach (scientific) questions


2. let's you cook up a (scientific) answer


3. you can use it as a black box (like an orbitrap)


4. you can refine existing methods (well, some can, others don't)


5. it has an error (but I do not believe it is normally distributed)

Now, to me it's trivial to work put how Open Source supports this.