You see, to my mind "available from the authors on request" means "not available at some indeterminate point in the future". If they actually wanted to make it available they would have put it up on the web somewhere. Ergo, since they haven't, it means...what exactly?
I don't get it. Ok, so there's probably an innocent explanation. Maybe this is how it was done in the good ole days ("Hey, the 80s are calling. They want a copy of that software you wrote"). All I know is that I don't want to spend an hour or whatever reviewing a manuscript that describes software which may vanish into thin air.
I'd be interested to know if you have a different view on this.
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I agree, and would add a reasonable amount of data to the list of things that should be available.
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