If I were GILD and "the only game in town" as far as [HIV] nuke backbones are concerned, I would make each additional collaboration more lucrative for myself…
Agreed. GILD has said that the Btripla arrangement with JNJ is somewhat more favorable than the Atripla arrangement with BMY; GILD pays JNJ a discounted price for Edurant, but it pays BMY the full list price for Sustiva.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”