As anyone who has had Biota shares knows, Biota shareholders have to earn money doing something else to survive.
Even PortableAlpha has NEVER earned an income from owning Biota shares. He gets his money flicking Peter Cook's Sun Shine switch.
Instead of Biota management spending all the Biota revenue paying themselves and kowtowing to their big pharmaceutical masters, Biota should be run by management that understand that the genius of Biota, the value of Biota, the reason I bought Biota shares, is the pioneering inventions by the original CSIRO research that discovered xray crystallography, and patented a huge wealth of cures that big pharmaceuticals have been ripping off ever since, assisted by the best Biota management servile monkeys GSK peanuts can buy.
The current Biota management should NOT be strip mining the patents and selling to pharmaceutical companies for a quick dollar, not "join a partner" which is Biota management speak for holding the shareholders by the scruff of the neck while the "partner" rogers the shareholders senseless.
A real Biota management should be evolving Biota into a pharmaceutical company, to value add, and extend the lifetime of the the R&D inventions, because what pharmaceutical companies need are patented original inventions, not money, not empty factories, not gutless management, not seeds drifting through space for years.
Relenza promises so much and has been failed by management for over twenty years, the last chance for Biota is to succeed independently, develop and market the cure for the common cold (HRV), and eject the Invasion of the Biota Management Body Snatchers, and save Earth.
Hint: Watch the Invasion of the Body Snatchers and imagine Biota management "are the pod people who work together to spread more pods so more people can be replaced until they have eliminated the entire human race"(of shareholders).