"The biggest loss of all, though, is a necessary one: the myth that anything but a for-profit corporation is the right way to organize a company." Alternativel

"The biggest loss of all, though, is a necessary one: the myth that anything but a for-profit corporation is the right way to organize a company." Alternatively, we could have these companies turned into research organizations run by the government and funded by taxes they way most research (e.g. pharmaceuticals) should be. There's more than one way to get good research done, and having it public removes many strange incentives and conflicts of interest.