Unfortunately number of essential resources require more $$ than is available and resources not treated well at committees. Having said that, $150 pp/pa for an essential resource you use daily is a bargain.https://twitter.com/bplazzaro/status/982236622618947585 …
It would be an interesting exercise to calculate how many free software tools you use, and how much you would pay for each. What would the typical annual budget be? Do you include GNU and Linux Foundation too?
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Yes. I would pay for BLAST, GenBank, SRA, ClustalW, MUSCLE, CDHit, etc. if I had to, and I would grumble about it, but still be glad to do it. Especially if I knew the funds were going to support its continued development.
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Challenges: high friction; licensing nearly always involves slow, painful interaction w licensing office. Their incentives often an issue - low price means they can’t be bothered; high prices scare away customers
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We pay for and use CentOS7, MacOS, RedHat, CLC bio, UNIVA, Illumina “conceierge” service, and a host of other commercial biofx pipelines by smaller startups and biotech’s. We develop everything else we need to fill the gaps, and are no strangers to using freeware.
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It is easy to convince Univ admin to buy an instrument than to pay for a software or a subscription. If you are only one using it then no way!
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