[FRIAM] stranger than fiction
Gary Schiltz
gary at naturesvisualarts.com
Wed Jul 27 12:51:35 EDT 2022
I should mention that the website is in need of serious updating.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 11:50 AM Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
wrote:
> 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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