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Re:The Weirdness of CRISPR by quakeguy on Sunday April 02, 2017 @08:14PM (#14019816)
They want to earn money, nothing more. No knowledge is gained, no wisdom is earned here. Just plain old money interests at work. Some call it capitalism, i call it greed.
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Re:The Weirdness of CRISPR by SolarNet on Sunday April 02, 2017 @09:38PM (#14020084)
Actually it's called rent-seeking and many capitalists would also call it bad (namely stemming from the failures of the patent system).
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Re:The Weirdness of CRISPR by Turing_Machine on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:06PM (#14029198)
Such organizations free up people like Jennifer Doudna to spend time in their labs (i.e., their area of expertise) rather than spending time sitting in meetings with lawyers and similar krill from companies that want to license the technology.

How is that not a valuable service?

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Re:The Weirdness of CRISPR by monochromatic on Monday April 03, 2017 @09:37AM (#14022636)
If they're buying up patents, they're enriching the people who are making these inventions.
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