Comments on: Microsoft shares source code with AIDS researchers

Researchers hope to use four specialized software tools to identify genetic patterns that could help development of HIV vaccine.

[ifiredmyboss.com]

Nice to see

Nice to see technology not being locked away in a cabinet just because it might not be the originally inteded use

[shane--2008]

so, someday

we can have vaccines that blue screen. super......

[dhavleak]

dude!

Are you trying to act like a turd or does it just come naturally to you?

This news is a Good Thing. Don't knock them for it.

[rthutchison]

wow

you are an idiot...

[Solarion]

In other news...

In anticipation of this annoucement, the Open Source and Free Software communities have since 1980 released the source code to *all* of their software to researchers in AIDS, Tuberculosis, Smallpox, Anthrax, Ebola, Lou Gherig's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Quasars, Black Holes, Quantum Dots, Deforestation, Climate Change, and Sports Scores, as well as that strange dude down the street who can't do anything unless it's somehow a Star Wars reference.