Foreword
Twelve years ago, I joined the pharmaceutical industry as a computational scientist working in early stage drug discovery. Back then, I felt stymied by the absence of a clear legal or IT framework for obtaining official support for using Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) within my company, much less for its distribution outside our walls. I came to realize that the underlying reason was because I do not work for a technology company wherein the establishment of such policies would be a core part of its business. Today, the situation is radically different: the corporate mindset towards these technologies has become far more accommodating, even to the point of actively recommending ...
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