apparatus. A common stack also provides a common file format for
experimental data, which makes it easier to share data and analysis
tools.
+
+While there have been other attempts SMFS control which claim to be
+open source, they have either been based on closed source
+tools\citep{aioanei11} or have (critically) not actually published
+their source\citep{materassi09}. Both of these limitations make it
+hard to realize the benefits of communal, open source development, and
+the \pyafm\ stack suffers from neither.