[wormlord]

Remember when Gates refused to lift IP restrictions on the COVID vaccine

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

[argsnd]

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.

[wormlord]

It also conveniently benefits him greatly.

[ChicagoDave]

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.

[PieTime]

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