[FRIAM] stranger than fiction

[Gary Schiltz]

Yes, it’s for the birds. The IT infrastructure for the group is a chaotic
mess. I’m trying to bring a bit of order to the chaos. Both IT wise and
organization wise. I’ve never been much of a Microsoft fan, but their
transition to the cloud seems pretty impressive so far. BTW, here’s the
foundation I volunteer for.

mindocloudforest.org

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:16 AM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> 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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