Re:Unfounded accusations! (Score 1)

I've worked for large pharmaceutical companies doing research. I'm now sysadmin for a research group in a large cancer charity in the UK, but have also done research in the university sector.

Yes, Oxford and the NFCR will own the results. Yes, they will probably profit from them. But I'm not too worried about that because of a couple of points:

1. Major drugs are like CPUs. I'm sure the world would be a better place if there were lots of GPLed CPU designs out there but, at the moment, how am I going to get them made? I still have to pay AMD for my CPUs. Big, evil corporation gets all my money.
2. Oxford is not badly off for money, but other universities I've worked for in the UK have been very strapped for cash. In effect the only time we could really afford to do great research and hire lots of PhDs and PostDocs was when we were whoring ourself to get cash from a big PharmCo. Of course, with better public funding...

Having said that, I'm not going to take part in this project because I have no way of controlling what UD runs on my machines. Folding@Home sounds far better to me.

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