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This chapter shows how some universities try and manage to take possession of the coding work performed by their researchers. In this way, personal software development projects end up becoming one of the immaterial resources controlled by universities. The importance of economic funding and academic prestige for software development is analysed. Finally, I scrutinize how some neuroimaging software packages, produced in prestigious universities, have turned into gold standards of neuroimaging analysis, as well as the academic and political consequences of such phenomenon.

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    http://www.mibca.com/.

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    In chapterTwo, the history and social meaning of GitHub was analysed.

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    According to the inVesalius team, in 2018 the package had been downloaded over 20,000 times, in 145 countries. However, such diffusion has not been reflected in international publications.

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    Friedman test, with p = 0.000.

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    A small number of questionnaires were obtained from the fourth level, which prevents me from drawing conclusions about it.

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    https://www.lniunicamp.com/uf2c.

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    In my quantitative analyses, SPM was classified as a flexible package.

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  2. Department of Sociology, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Bicudo, E. (2019). chapterFour ( Owning Code: Institutional Aspects of Software Development ) {. In: Neuroimaging, Software, and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7060-1_4

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