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Mathematicians rarely collaborate by forking and improving other papers. They rewrite from scratch, because communicating ideas isn't considered the important part, getting credit for a new paper is.



Fair enough, though I've been working as a programmer for over 6 years now (and I've been programming on and off, as a hobby, for over 3 decades).




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