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Open source projects are by their nature intended to be welcoming, pulling in contributions from many different volunteers. But in reality, open source and the tech industry in general often lack diversity. Speaking at the Open Source Leadership Summit in February, Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer Katharina Borchert told the crowd that working to bring ethnic, gender, and skill diversity to open source projects isn't just the right thing to do because of moral grounds, it's the right thing to do to make projects more successful.
Me, I beg to differ. Pretty sure success has to do with the diversity of thought/ideas rather than genetic diversity.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 31 2017, @06:40AM
Humans are very genetically diverse (with some inbred exceptions) and having an entire genome sequence would still not be enough to predict much with any certainty
Unless, of course, that assertion is incorrect. It's worth noting that no one has actually done that study to confirm your claim. How many entire genome sequences available for study are there again? A glance at Wikipedia claims [wikipedia.org] that there were 69 publicly available whole genome sequences as of 2012.
Meanwhile we do have studies that indicate otherwise, such as a couple of examples in my other reply [soylentnews.org].