Yes, it’s for the birds. The IT infrastructure for the group is a chaotic mess. I’m trying to bring a bit of order to the chaos. Both IT wise and organization wise. I’ve never been much of a Microsoft fan, but their transition to the cloud seems pretty impressive so far. BTW, here’s the foundation I volunteer for.
mindocloudforest.org On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:16 AM Stephen Guerin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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/ >> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > 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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