Gary, I bet that Microsoft software is for the birds. :-)
or is your nonprofit dealing with community broadband? On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 8:42 AM Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com> wrote: > I am the geek guy for a small nonprofit foundation here in Ecuador and I > must say that at least a few software companies are fairly generous with > licensing for academic and nonprofit organizations. Microsoft has been > particularly helpful. > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:48 PM Jon Zingale <jonzing...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> """Current in silico software is only accessible to large pharmaceutical >> companies willing to pay obnoxious licensing fees. Students in every >> country no matter their university, startup companies to Fortune 500s, and >> even dedicated hobbyists will all have the same opportunity to design new >> molecules to change the future of drug discovery," said Shkreli, co-founder >> of Druglike.""" >> >> FWIW, my company's software is free to academics. This article hides the >> fact that the majority of the economic barrier to entry is not licensing >> but the cost of performing the large-scale simulations necessary to do >> docking, md, generating conformers, or what-have-you. Drug discovery is >> computationally hard and if AWS or whoever is going to ultimately charge >> for compute then someone along the path will need to pay for that compute. >> Just my two cents. >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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