• @Axaoe
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    3 years ago

    “But senior people in the Gates organization very clearly sent out the message: Pooling was unnecessary and counterproductive. They dampened early enthusiasm by saying that I.P. is not an access barrier in vaccines. That’s just demonstratively false.”

    Appears there was a chance for a good thing, but was preempted by Gates and his venture in March.

    a Gates Foundation spokesperson pointed me to a piece by its CEO, Mark Suzman, arguing that “IP fundamentally underpins innovation, including the work that has helped create vaccines so quickly.”

    It’s weird (as a non-IP owner) to see this appear here, I understand the work is valuable but would have thought that there were other ways to capitalize on this without slowing down the vaccine rollout.

    Ive begun to see things about his (Gates) work with farmers and seeds in India as well, so perhaps there’s a chance that more scrutiny will continue to appear.

  • @hburb3ri
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    -63 years ago

    Why is this alt-right crap on a free software sub. First, conspiracy theorists thought Bill Gates wanted to microchip them with 5G mind control devices in the vaccines, and now they’re saying he’s impeding them. Stick with a story.

    • @adrianmalacoda
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      83 years ago

      This isn’t alt-right, conspiracy theory, or antivax. It is a commentary on intellectual property, which is relevant to !libre_culture@lemmy.ml (which isn’t strictly a free software comm, mind you)

    • @linuxerOP
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      63 years ago

      How is this alt-right?