[FRIAM] stranger than fiction

[Stephen Guerin]

Gary,

I bet that Microsoft software is for the birds.  :-)

or is your nonprofit dealing with community broadband?


On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 8:42 AM Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
wrote:

> I am the geek guy for a small nonprofit foundation here in Ecuador and I
> must say that at least a few software companies are fairly generous with
> licensing for academic and nonprofit organizations. Microsoft has been
> particularly helpful.
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:48 PM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> """Current in silico software is only accessible to large pharmaceutical
>> companies willing to pay obnoxious licensing fees. Students in every
>> country no matter their university, startup companies to Fortune 500s, and
>> even dedicated hobbyists will all have the same opportunity to design new
>> molecules to change the future of drug discovery," said Shkreli, co-founder
>> of Druglike."""
>>
>> FWIW, my company's software is free to academics. This article hides the
>> fact that the majority of the economic barrier to entry is not licensing
>> but the cost of performing the large-scale simulations necessary to do
>> docking, md, generating conformers, or what-have-you. Drug discovery is
>> computationally hard and if AWS or whoever is going to ultimately charge
>> for compute then someone along the path will need to pay for that compute.
>> Just my two cents.
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