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by wormlord 409 days ago
Remember when Gates refused to lift IP restrictions on the COVID vaccine

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bi...

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There were, I think, fair reasons to do this. A patent-free "people's vaccine" may well have reached fewer people because there's got to be money in scaling up the production of something like this.
It also conveniently benefits him greatly.
How? Guy doesn’t need anything. He’s never played the greedy billionaire part.

Vaccine IP is also a moving target. You need experts to work at it non-stop. Covid-19 mutates every three months.

He’s also buying up a lot of farm land in US…