I wish they would do the same with University-based distributed computing projects like Rosetta@home (<a href="http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/" rel="nofollow">http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/</a>) and Folding@Home (<a href="http://folding.stanford.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://folding.stanford.edu/</a>).<p>Whatever they find, and the software they produce will be available to all, compounding the effect of any discovery.<p>Nothing wrong with investing in startups, though. I'm not saying it has to be one or the other. But I've been really impressed with Rosetta@home lately and I wonder what they could do with more resources.