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Biology Goes Open Source

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Forbes; By Matthew Herper and Robert Langreth 		Mail this story
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Some of the world's biggest drug companies are finding that their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away.

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hiohoaus ·
...as biology corps realise that the social plusses are an actual benefit which plain money can't buy them, and that they might get a genuine solution at the end which probably wouldn't arrive if they hogged the data.

This is a weird and effective reproduction vector for Open Source concepts. It'll be interesting to see where else this appears in our society. You can see it occasionally in religion, so it's interesting to see it appear in what are basically atheistic (the word "naturalistic" doesn't quite fit there) moral situations as well.

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