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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • December 12, 2002
    Bruce Stewart interviews James Kent, the developer of GigAssembler and more.

    ``Stewart: What is your view on open source in bioinformatics?

    ``Kent: Yea! Go. The genome is hard enough to decompile. Don't make me have to decompile your source as well.

    ``On the other hand, to be totally honest, if a tool works well, is well documented, and the people maintaining the tool make regular improvements in it in response to user requests, I would very likely never get around to looking at the source anyway.

    ``I think that source that is developed from government and charity grants should be not only open, but freely distributable, modifiable, etc. Not even `copyleft'. This applies to most academics most of the time. Since academics typically want to go onto new research rather than supporting what they've already written, many aspects of the standard open source model work well for them.''

    Full story:
    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/12/10/kent.html

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