Gates: open-source model that "no one can improve software performance"

-- April 24, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates (Bill Gates) recently in the United States Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, (Institute for Systems Biology) gave a speech that commercial and proprietary software Compared to open-source (hereinafter referred to as "open source") less than the largest software is precisely because of the open source code, will lead to a "no one willing to improve software performance" phenomenon.

Gates previously announced, will be on July 1 officially withdraw from day-to-day management of Microsoft, Bill focused on energy - Melinda Gates (Bill and Melinda Gates) Foundation's charitable work. In this week's speech, Gates first talked about the science and technology to improve the human condition, the importance of overcoming the disease, and said that Microsoft is committed to the future of computer technology and biology combined.

In the audience questions from the audience stage, Gates said that at present many pharmaceutical companies usually invest a lot of money to study the treatment of hair loss, and other irrelevant drugs, rather than research and development of developing countries can cure all kinds of infectious diseases related to drugs.

Gates added that all major pharmaceutical companies do so, because they are faced with a dilemma of the situation: if he successfully developed a kind of public treatable infectious diseases drugs, the outside world will require the opening up of the technology. If the open technology, it means that earn less than the money, will not be able to recover pre-R and D investment; If you choose not open, then the outside world will face severe moral accusations.

One participant asked the audience then, in medical technology development process, can draw on the open-source software development model » Gates replied to this, he does not agree with open-source "General Public License (GPL)" mode, but Microsoft often in developing countries free of the Windows operating system and other software products.

Gates said, GPL permits the result is that "no one is willing to (or can) improve the performance of existing software" This way, open-source industry wasted a lot of manpower and resources, but also missed a lot of business opportunities. Gates said: "The open-source said earlier drug industry and research and development problems between the great similarity. If we developed a new drug, it should be to charge, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the developers."

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