Patents and Open Source Biotech Biotech Posted by michael on Tuesday January 18, @05:32PM from the my-new-asian-bird-flu-technique-is-unstoppable dept. sebFlyte writes "Since Slashdot readers seem to be interesting in the issues and problems surrounding software patents, I thought they might be interested to see that Wired is running an interesting piece on patents in Biotech and the way that they can hold up important research, and how there are clear parallels with the open source software community with the way that advocates of openness are trying to solve these problems."

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66289,00.html

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