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Re: Medical Research and Open Source: Competition Trumps Collaboration
Posted by: Jack M. Germain 2008-08-20 10:17:14
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Proponents of open source software are trying to make a case for using the collaborative approach to conquer the world's most vexing medical problems. However, established practices of avoiding the spotlight and protecting vested interests in breakthrough results still hamper the collaborative process. This kind of proprietary work ethic leads to researchers arriving at similar discoveries independently. The possibility of pooling such research to go even further together is not a main priority among many researchers.
I've never liked this competition thing anyway..."Haven't you heard - the evolution's over!"
And we are not animals any more; we're humans, and we should start behaving like ones - humane!
Yes, maybe (just maybe) the development of the civilization wouldn't have been that fast (too fast perhaps), but wouldn't have been so stressfull either [without competition].
Imagine inventing things out of pure curiosity (and not for mere reward) and through friendly communication with other humans in the society - now, that's what I call humane!
And we are not animals any more; we're humans, and we should start behaving like ones - humane!
Yes, maybe (just maybe) the development of the civilization wouldn't have been that fast (too fast perhaps), but wouldn't have been so stressfull either [without competition].
Imagine inventing things out of pure curiosity (and not for mere reward) and through friendly communication with other humans in the society - now, that's what I call humane!
