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Open Source Biology Initiative
Nick dos Remedios writes "The Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS) initiative aims to make biological technology more readily available to biologists everywhere. The latest genetics and biology tools should be freely available to researchers over the internet, but instead access is typically restricted by commercial patents and prohibitive licensing fees. BIOS and its associated BioForge aims to overcome these restrictions to innovation by encouraging companies and public sector research organizations to contribute their research tools and technologies to the BioForge repository. In return, users of the technology are bound by an open source license to share all improvements with the original inventors and other license holders."
Even though DNA is 'open source', it's so hard to hack right now company's stand to make more money by hoarding ideas and insights.
I know I'm going to be modded up on this
Great, now the terrorists will be able to create genetically enhanced supermen to fight our all natural 100% human soldiers. We're doomed!!!
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CMOS = Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
ok, everyone share your porn, and we'll have nice nice database for scientific research
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I like this free kick we are on. I think everything should be free. No one should be allowed to make or invent anything that isn't open source, (at least that I want to use). I would ever have to spend money again. Of course I couldn't make any money either, seeing as how everything is free. The up side is that I wouldn't have to work anymore because I don't have to pay for anything. But then who is working to make my bread if everything is free?
Somethings have to be possessions of an individual, so that we can charge others to use them and make money ourselves. Jealousy or envy is not a reason to force someone to give something up. If you can make a saleble product from the tools you need, then buy the tools. OTherwise I would venture to guess that it is not worth doing to begin with. Gosh, I had to buy a computer to write code with, what a horrible thing that I had to pay for a tool that should be free!
... to make an "Open Sores" joke?
No?
I'll get me coat.
I'm just waiting for the day when God turns up and claims he has prior art to the patented gene. :-D
Of course, with our system the way it is, sitting on top of prior art and waiting for infringement to come about as a business model has been patented, so God would be in trouble.
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