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Team:St Andrews/project/ethics/community
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project is considered the father of Free Software however he does not believe that at the current stage of development that Free Software principles can be applied to synthetic biology. In [http://www.reddit.com/tb/cv7sw an interview with reddit.com] Mr Stallman claimed that realistically we are decades off being able to full comprehend the base genetic code behind both humans and bacteria and as such until we reach that point we will be unable to generate a Free Software like community around synthetic biology. The reason for this Stallman suggests is that at present genetic code is akin to a compiled binary, a program ready for execution
