You are the one moaning about this place not me!

Well I guess I have been misunderstood. I am not asking for being paid for chrunching for WCG.
I wonder why pharmacomponies do not rush in. The information is public and free access, allright but this will not prevent them to make money. So why not support us with the computing power they can provide?
All I can see with a hepty support is IBM, which we all appriacate a lot, but more is better. Sooner the cruching finishes on a project, sooner the paper rolls to peer review and published. After that someone work on lab so it can shift from theory to appiled science ( rollihg out drugs & vaccines). This process takes a hell of time and each step can not start before the prior one finishes.
Most time consuming part is the cruching where we came in to make a change, but recruting new members hence computing power can leapfrog once the Pharma's get to join ( and anonce it of course )

Forgive me if I've misunderstood your point, but if you're saying that drug companies should be providing grid computing resources, I believe the answer is that they already are. United Devices entered a contract with Bristol Myers a couple months ago to use the ud agent for their own in-house grid computing effort.

If you are also saying that drug companies should share the wealth that they derive from public spirited efforts such as the work WCG is doing, I would agree with that too. The US pharma companies are some of the greediest and most heartless sob's on the planet. One drug I take, Zofran (an anti-emetic) would have cost me over $800 for 20 pills. I got the same prescription from Canada - where the government negotiates prices for drugs - for less than $150. The US gov't does not negotiate prices for Medicare recipients because the pharma lobbyists have prevented any attempt to do this. They cite the huge costs of drug development and clinical trials. But if they can sell the drug in Canada for less than 1/5 of what they charge in the US, how can anyone take that bull#### seriously. They use public domain research like what WCG researchers provide and use that to pump up their own bottom line at our expense. It's obscene and they should pay through the nose for the research that they currently get for free - just like they make us pay through the nose for the drugs they develop from research that is funded by both government grants and philanthropic endeavors such as WCG.

That's one of the reasons I stand ready to promote such programs as that being started by Gridfinity.com. If I'm going to get raped on drug prices when these meds come to market, I at least want to receive some compensation up front for my contribution to the pharma companies bottom line.

Exactly, halfcard.

Twilyth, we can't stop the drug companies developing drugs. We don't want to! But the more work we do and release into the public domain, the less they can patent.

This makes it easier and cheaper to create generic drugs.