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Man Open Sources His Genetic Data

Posted by samzenpus on from the man-of-the-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Manu Sporny, founder and CEO of Digital Bazaar, has decided to use GitHub to store a very interesting project. Rather than a piece of software, he is listing his own genetic data as an open source project. He has released all his rights to the data and made around 1 million of his genetic markers public domain. As to why he decided to do what many may feel is a risky sharing of data so personal and unique to himself, Manu explains: 'I've thought long and hard about each of those questions and the many more that you ask yourself before publishing this sort of personal data. There are large privacy implications in doing this. However, speaking solely for myself, I think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.' Manu hasn't gone into great detail as to his thought processes yet, but promises to on his blog at a later date."

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  1. I was here first by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been offering my DNA samples for at least 20 years now.

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    1. Re:I was here first by rootofevil · · Score: 2, Funny

      *sigh* the same old free as in beer vs free as in speech argument again...

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    2. Re:I was here first by Mr.+DOS · · Score: 3, Funny

      Give me free beer and I'll give you free speech.

  2. Looking around... by AndyAndyAndyAndy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where do we file bug reports?

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  3. Long term, not a good idea... by olsmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's going to find himself running over and over again in emulators in about 50 years.

  4. Creative Defense by grub · · Score: 2, Funny


    "Your Honour, my client wasn't sexually assaulting the alleged victim, he was merely Open Sourcing his genetic data."

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    1. Re:Creative Defense by Mysticalfruit · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sounds more like an unauthorized code injection...

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  5. Lawsuit Still Pending by makubesu · · Score: 4, Funny

    His parents are going to get him for derivative works.

  6. Please merge with me! by shd666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please merge with me! git pull https://github.com/nportman/dna

  7. Who wrote this crap code? by w0mprat · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is the worst open source code I've ever looked at, it's a mess of spahetti code, full of kludge after kludge. There's no commenting and most of the code doesn't seem to do anything, there are functions that haven't been used in literally millions of years. Talk about bloat!

    How this stuff compiles and runs I don't know, it's clearly NOT intellegent design!

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