The Washington Post hints at potential closed-source monopoly on the "software" of creation:
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Some experts are worried that a few maverick companies are already gaining monopoly control over the core "operating system" for artificial life and are poised to become the Microsofts of synthetic biology. That could stifle competition, they say, and place enormous power in a few people's hands
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"We're heading into an era where people will be writing DNA programs like the early days of computer programming, but who will own these programs?" asked Drew Endy, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...cmodule&sub=AR
Is life inherently open-source? I would tend to think that the function of DNA is script-like in that it is not "compiled" and therefore open-source by design. Comments?
