Man Open Sources His Genetic Data 198
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samzenpus
from the man-of-the-people dept.
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."
I was here first (Score:5, Funny)
I've been offering my DNA samples for at least 20 years now.
Looking around... (Score:5, Funny)
Long term, not a good idea... (Score:4, Funny)
Creative Defense (Score:3, Funny)
"Your Honour, my client wasn't sexually assaulting the alleged victim, he was merely Open Sourcing his genetic data."
Lawsuit Still Pending (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Creative Defense (Score:5, Funny)
Please merge with me! (Score:3, Funny)
Please merge with me! git pull https://github.com/nportman/dna [github.com]
Re:I was here first (Score:3, Funny)
*sigh* the same old free as in beer vs free as in speech argument again...
Re:I was here first (Score:4, Funny)
Give me free beer and I'll give you free speech.
Who wrote this crap code? (Score:4, Funny)
How this stuff compiles and runs I don't know, it's clearly NOT intellegent design!