[Fsfe-uk] Open Science/Patents

[keith richards]

FYI: 

Open Science talk at the ICA tomorrow, Thu 20
Jan 2005:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66289,00.html

"Open Source Biology" article in Wired discusses
patents:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66289,00.html:

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Hackers and those in the ‘open source’ community have
done much to change how we use computers and computer
software.

But can an ‘open access’ model or a hacker ethic
usefully be extended to science ?

Speakers: McKenzie Wark, Professor of Cultural and
Media Studies at Lang College, New School University
and author of The Hacker Manifesto; Ian Gibson, MP and
Chair of the House of Commons Select Committee on
Science and Technology; Dr Tim Hubbard, Head of Human
Genome Analysis, The Sanger Institute; David Bodanis,
author of Electric Universe. Chair:Fiona Fox, Science
Media Centre.







        
        
                
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