>Open source and science is a gift economy where everyone contributes what they can afford, and a growing snowball of ideas This doesn't work with pharma. It s

>Open source and science is a gift economy where everyone contributes what they can afford, and a growing snowball of ideas This doesn't work with pharma. It sort of works for early compound discovery/development, but not for the seriously expensive work: the process chemistry, the animal studies, the human trials, and if all goes well, the costs associated with facing off against adversarial regulatory agencies.