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- Will open source biology get anywhere?
- Any patent based on publicly funded researchshould be public domain as a matter of law. It is amazing that public money gets poured into research labs, and when a discovery is made it is handed over to Big Pharma along with all the intellectual property.Talk about yet another instance of...
- Tags: open source biology, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
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- Open source nanotech project launched
- The idea of doing biology through open source has been around for years, but the high cost of research, the fact that patent rights are clear in this area, and the huge pay-offs to corporate inventors have throttled it until now. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Nanotechnology, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- News to know: Google; CTIA; Microsoft; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: FBI's 'Operation Phish Phry' snares nearly 100 people Sam Diaz:Mobile VoIP services no longer taboo, following AT&T...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mobile, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, CTIA, Data Centers, Cellular Phones, Web Browsers, Podcasts, Tablets, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Will open source biology get anywhere?
- The first such "open source biology" company, Sage Bionetworks, was founded just this year and is only now beginning to solicit its first donations beyond seed money. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Biology, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- I for one welcome no overlords
- GPLed software is not legally free.Only software distributed with no license at all is legally free. The GPL is admirably, artfully, and life-givingly crafted to compel specific downstream-of-distribution behaviors through legal encumbrance. Legally encumbered software is not legally free software. Period.We will know that the free software movement--where "GPLed" is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital rights management (DRM), OPEN SOURCE, Free Open-Source Software, GPLed software, Stallman, software, F/OSS, FLOSS
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- 'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions
- EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying...
- Tags: Earth, Soup, Computer, EvoGrid, Life Form, Productivity, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it
- Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI 2.0, but admit the effects are not yet wide nor deep. We have yet to see SOA...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, End-game, Sides, Profits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- eResearch Workflows for Studying Free and Open Source Software Development
- This paper proposes a demonstration of eResearch workflow tools as a model for the research community studying free and open source software and its development. For purposes of background and justification, the paper first introduces eResearch as increasingly practiced in fields such as astrophysics and biology, then contrasts the practice...
- Tags: Workflow, Syracuse University, Tool, F/OSS, Productivity, Open Source
- White papers 2008-01-12
- How valuable are rumors in open source?
- How valuable are rumors in open source?Another rumour!Dana Blankenhorn's tech experience on important things. Ans: Sleeping with software engineers, at least the one he married 30 years ago.I never pretended to be anything but a journalistI have covered technology for nearly a quarter-century and have a lot of experience in...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2007-08-27
- Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evil
- Captain Cyborg and the Problem of EvilA CounterexampleThis is a very interesting post. It sounds like science-fiction, almost delusional, but you're saying these different scenarios represent real viewpoints held by real people.Some more people I would add to your list who believe in the human extension scenario are Douglas Engelbart,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, OOA/OOD/OOP, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- Misusing open source in a good cause
- The great scientist and futurist Freeman Dyson has an important essay today in the New York Times. (Picture from Wikipedia.)He writes about green technology, science built on biology, overtaking gray technology, science built on chemistry and physics. He writes about creating new forms of life to solve intractable problems, about...
- Tags: politics, Government, General, education, Development
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- The IT behind the Cancer Genome Atlas
- This month the National Cancer Institutes Cancer Genome Atlas will start receiving tissue samples which will be used to map the genetic data embedded in cancer cells. The side effect...
- Tags: Utility computing, Software Infrastructure, Science, Open Source, IT Management, Innovation, Hardware Infrastructure, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- The origin of Unix
- The origin of Unixrewriting history to suit your ideaologyreally, you have an adgenda and you've rewritten "your" version of history to suit it.no wonder no one has bothered to comment on this rubbish.Too muchI can certainly respect your admiration of Unix, both the platform and the philosophy. I've worked on...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- Open biology is the new buzzword
- Open biology is the new buzzwordNothing like the GPL in Biology?[hey, I've got the flu, but sure, I'll comment]Well, as a legal document, perhaps there is nothing like the GPL in biology. As the natural order of things, there's nothing more like free software than the normal reproduction of DNA.I've...
- Tags: Biotechnology, biology, GPL, patent, Open biology
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- Open biology is the new buzzword
- Rob Carlson right, the author of Biology is Technology, and who first coined the term open source biology six years ago, wants to change it to open biology, saying the comparisons between DNA and computer code aren't there.To me this is a question of call me sour, call me kraut...
- Tags: business models, Patents, Government, Development, Legal, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- JBoss founder Marc Fleury leaves Red Hat, now what?
- Marc Fluery, outspoken founder of JBoss and Senior Vice President at Red Hat, has left the building.This entry will be updated as more information comes in, so be sure to check back for more."I have done what I can to help Red Hat succeed," he said in a short statement....
- Tags: General, Java, Community, Marc, Red Hat Inc., JBoss
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Fleury out at Red Hat
- Marc Fleury left RedHat today.The JBoss founder had been on the outs with Red Hat management for a while, even complaining publicly about a lack of support for his middleware products.The end came in the form of a brief statement from a Red Hat spokesperson.In the spirit of transparency, would...
- Tags: General, Linux, Infrastructure, middleware, java, management, Red Hat Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Entrepreneur-itis bites again as Marc Fleury leaves Red Hat
- Theres always a risk when a company formed by a strong personality -- especially when the company is identified closely with that individual -- is acquired. Yet I had high hopes when JBoss was acquired by Red Hat last year.At the JBoss user conference in Las Vegas last summer I...
- Tags: Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Enterprise Java, SOA, Linux, Software Development, Eclipse, Agile Development, JBoss, Red Hat, Java, Marc, Red Hat Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Study: Genetic info swapped between different species
- Study: Genetic info swapped between different speciesGenetic info swapThis article fails to explain how the "genetic swap info" would get into the germ line. A genetic swap into any other cells would be a genetic dead end.. it may confer a temporary advantage or disadvantage but it would die out...
- Tags: stem-cell, species, organism
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
- Wikipedia still doesn't get it
- Wikipedia still doesn't get itEasy solutionWikipedia is actually a great idea - it would be incredibly easy to add a byline that hyperlinks to a users' credentials. We don't get to publish our blogs anonymously, purporting to be knowledgeable in a given area. Wikipedia should be no different...
- Tags: Wiki, accountability, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
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