[Gllug] seti

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Jan 6 03:04:09 UTC 2003


On , 5 Jan 2003, Nix wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Adam Bower moaned:
>>Just a warning but some of the distributed drug/cancer finding software is
>>being run by private companies who will be taking out patents on
>>their research so that they can sell the results.
>Do you have any idea how expensive the drug creation / clinical trial
>process is, and what percentage of candidate drugs make it?

Yes. That doesn't mean that the companies involved shouldn't pay for
our computer cycles if they're going to use them to make money.

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