Open Source = Some Good (Score 1)

Considering the implications of molecular engineering tek, I think open source projects for molecular engineering research are great ideas. I think everyone can agree with me that it would be BAD for only the rich people to have wannabe-replicators at their disposal. Let's face it: grey goo is not an issue here. If research into molecular engineering allows the creation of nano-weapons, who cares? Every scientific advance in the past... er... 9 thousand years has had some sort of violent application. And, interestingly enough, Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father. Making sure the projects are open source will increase efficiency, and as long as people are interested in programming Atoma-CADish apps (the great power of dirty-dirty capitalism being that people often work on very un-interesting things) we can make sure in the future that a glitch in AtCAD 4.6 doesn't make your insulin with a bunch of faulty hydrogen bonds, or whatever. Um, yeah, open source is good. Oh, by the way, did I mention this was my first Slashdot post? *grin* _An American voting for Dubya is like an American voting for someone really stupid._ _Jay