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I suppose this topic has now gone cold. But for any latecomers (and definitely for Andy Grove himself) you can look at the new article by Paul Albert over on Bacteriality.com:

http://bacteriality.com/2007/12/11/opensource/

I think Paul has a very good point. The 'correct' model for the medical research community to use is not the Semiconductor Industry one, although that was a good first take on the subject -- it is the Open Source Software movement method that should be followed. Paul goes on to give an example of an Open Source Clinical trial as well to prove his point. (The point being that the trial is actually finding cures -- and quickly). If other clinical researchers (especially ones with deep pockets) could take the info and run with it for other illnesses (in parallel with the current ones being worked on) who knows how quickly a lot of them could be also put in the 'cure' bin? There is no reason right now that other researchers in say, MS, or ALS or Alzheimers fields could not also jump on this same bandwagon and attempt similar trials using the same protocol -- they just have not and will not give it a try -- it is hard to turn that giant medical establishment tanker in a new direction very quickly. Sad but true.

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Comment: One way to look for a timely model for medical research on a molecular level would be to find the motion filed in U.S. District (NM) Court of 04/02/01, titled The Solution to the Equation of Schrodinger. It leads to the U.S. copyright TXu1-266-788, which presents the grand unified topological model of the atom as a picoyoctotechnical interactive point map for all particles, fields, and waves.
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Posted By: jimbbb @ 12/14/2007 2:45:01 PM

I suppose this topic has now gone cold. But for any latecomers (and definitely for Andy Grove himself) you can look at the new article by Paul Albert over on Bacteriality.com:

http://bacteriality.com/2007/12/11/opensource/

I think Paul has a very good point. The 'correct' model for the medical research community to use is not the Semiconductor Industry one, although that was a good first take on the subject -- it is the Open Source Software movement method that should be followed. Paul goes on to give an example of an Open Source Clinical trial as well to prove his point. (The point being that the trial is actually finding cures -- and quickly). If other clinical researchers (especially ones with deep pockets) could take the info and run with it for other illnesses (in parallel with the current ones being worked on) who knows how quickly a lot of them could be also put in the 'cure' bin? There is no reason right now that other researchers in say, MS, or ALS or Alzheimers fields could not also jump on this same bandwagon and attempt similar trials using the same protocol -- they just have not and will not give it a try -- it is hard to turn that giant medical establishment tanker in a new direction very quickly. Sad but true.