Software is a Method (Meme)
- it provides a recipe to approach (scientific) questions
- let’s you cook up a (scientific) answer
- you can use it as a black box (like an orbitrap)
- you can refine existing methods (well, some can, others don’t)
- 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.