I just found out about this project and I would be very enthousiastic to join it.
But I have one major question: what happens with the results.
Who will own the results?
Will poor countries be able to use the results in their own research, or be able to use the results to create their own cure?
Will there be some safeguards that no company patents cures found while using a free community effort?

Because if I'm doing this to help a rich company make more money by forcing poor countries to pay them, I don't want to be part of it.

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I just found out about this project and I would be very enthousiastic to join it.
But I have one major question: what happens with the results.
Who will own the results?
Will poor countries be able to use the results in their own research, or be able to use the results to create their own cure?
Will there be some safeguards that no company patents cures found while using a free community effort?

Because if I'm doing this to help a rich company make more money by forcing poor countries to pay them, I don't want to be part of it.

This was debated recently here.

The short answer is all results will be made available to the public. The use of the software Rosetta is free of charge for academic purposes but companies have to pay for it (which will fund further research). If I understood it right no company can patent the results or algorithms which are found and developed during this project. One company can however license the Rosetta software use their own computers and whatever they may discover on their machines is not available to the public (understandably).

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