Gates Pushes Open-Source Approach to HIV Research

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 20, 2006 @03:49AM from the so-ought-every-government-grant dept.

dan the person writes that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation "has donated $287m to 16 different research groups around the world to work on developing an HIV vaccine. The catch? They have to share their work even if the groups were previously competing against each other. Sounds like a familiar development model to me, I wonder where I have seen it before?" Besides the BBC's coverage, the Seattle Times has a good story about the grant, with a few more details about how the money will be spent.

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totally different goals by nitroamos · 2006-07-20 04:13 · Score: 5, Insightful

the goal of microsoft is to make money.
the goal of bill gates' charity is to help people.

why should it be surprising if gates uses different methods to accomplish different goals?