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Is there a github for open source medicine and pharma? Meanwhile they apparently also had private investors for this initiative: While Big Pharma corporations
by 1cvmask 5y ago
Is there a github for open source medicine and pharma?
Meanwhile they apparently also had private investors for this initiative:
While Big Pharma corporations took billions of dollars in public funding to help develop vaccines from which they then reaped enormous profits while often charging exorbitant prices, Hotez and Battazzi created Cobervax with $7 million, mostly from private investors. One of these, Austin vodka distiller Tito's, contributed $1 million to the effort.
- quantified 5y agoIt costs money. Thank you Tito’s!
- olliej 5y agoI’ll drink to that! More seriously companies that take public funding to create a product should be required to treat that as an investment on par with any other private investment: giving equity and revenue back. It still annoys me that companies take public money and then create a profit from that investment, and don’t even have to pay it back, let alone actual revenue sharing :-/