Re: [DIYbio] WG: Bio-Commons Whitepaper

On 08/12/2014 08:37 PM, Dakota Hamill wrote:
> why would or should I ever consider giving up a % ownership of that to anyone else?

No good reason. You're not even being too cynical AFAICS.

I think of projects to crowd source as stepping stones mostly.
Unlike in free-open software, hardware has such high effort levels and costs to
replicate, that freely giving it away can trap you in not recovering your expenses.
So, the free-publishing model I see is crowd-fund stepping stones or building blocks
that are licensed to work with proprietary parts, then earn money, then open some of the
proprietary parts when you see fit in their product life cycle so others can use those
as building blocks also along with the crowd-funded building blocks.

Anything else may be naive from what we've seen over the past 5 years with the reprap
developer founding makerbot, then closing off some areas he'd claimed would stay open before.
I've not seen much of any open experiments in genetic biology -- mostly just things like
beekeeping recipes. The projects on experiment.com formerly microryza.com seemed not to include
genetics.

Genetic engineering has the promise of cornucopias and mega earning potential, so it must be
attracting those who demand compensation more than not. It's also easy to agree that there
is more up front work before getting to sales in genetic engineering than in beekeeping, so
we see more simple stuff -- like I am working on -- generic equipment for lab work that
doesn't even have much original intellectual property for lawyers to wrangle with, just
the "obvious to a practitioner" kind of improvements that are not even being delivered
by the usual equipment suspects today.

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