“At the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Bill Gates
gave his thoughts on where the pharmaceutical industry was going,
and where it should be going. However, he also slipped up a bit and
criticized the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL is a
widely used (including by the Linux kernel) free software license.
Wired’s Thomas Goetz took notes on Bill Gates’ response to a
question from the audience regarding whether Gates thought
Microsoft should use open source software in health
research…”
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