Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available to the public

Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t... by 1457389 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @09:47PM (#7100382)

I'm sure we could agree on how the system is fucked, but where is the alternative? Fact is, people in this thread who are railing against academics holding patents don't seem to get how the system is built in the first place. If they do, they should be proposing alternatives, not just scoring cheap political points against Big Pharma and Big Academia.

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Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t... by dnautics on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @04:15AM (#7101631)

you don't need to 'propose alternatives'. You just do it. Make a drug. Don't patent it. Get it approved. Sell it. I mean, this is what I'm working on (see the damn link). Is that good enough?

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Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t... by 1457389 on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @01:58PM (#7104579)

I'm not super hopeful, but I will follow this with interest. Thanks and all the best.

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