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This project sounds awesome, but apparently one has to be a CERN employee/affiliate/something to see the referenced project page with all the details? Clicking the links to http://cern.ch/malt just takes one to a login page. Used the Google auth option and get forwarded to a page that says I'm not authorized.

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This is endemic to many CERN projects, even things that are often open source are behind a login. Or - the source (or export of it from CERN's GitLab) will be available, but documentation is behind a login page.

Reminds me of Mozilla issues on GitHub and Bugzilla. You'll find important discussions that reference Google Docs documents with plans for architectural changes, roadmaps, or other details pertaining to the issue, but the documents are restricted to Mozilla employees.

This is especially frustrating if you want to learn more about the issue, or you'd like to contribute to the project.

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Amozilla+docs.google.com&ty...

It's the same with several Facebook projects.

That is an interesting point. If they "default" to private seems a little like wanting their cake and eating it too.

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