Man Open Sources His Genetic Data

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

[GodfatherofSoul]

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

Looking around...

[AndyAndyAndyAndy]

Where do we file bug reports?

Long term, not a good idea...

[olsmeister]

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

Creative Defense

[grub]

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

Lawsuit Still Pending

[makubesu]

His parents are going to get him for derivative works.

Re:Creative Defense

[Mysticalfruit]

Sounds more like an unauthorized code injection...

Please merge with me!

[shd666]

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

Re:I was here first

[rootofevil]

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

Re:I was here first

[Mr. DOS]

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

Who wrote this crap code?

[w0mprat]

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!