Because when Gridcoin removes the mandatory team requirement it will open its doors to the entire BOINC community (6 figure active userbase, 7 figure registered userbase). That and gridcoin represent completed computation on the BOINC network, by buying gridcoin you're reimbursing the user's completed computation (which could be attempting to solve cancer/diseases, mapping the milkyway, searching for asteroids, etc).
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The problem is, who will control this information being altruistically paid for indirectly by the investors of Gridcoin? It's still going to be something with erected paywalls. It is research a Gridcoin user pays twice for. Some private interest will buy it and make the information theirs with patents. Owners collectively subsidize other groups making profit in a corporate welfare system. I feel that a blanket subsidy of corporations is a bad idea. See the Aron Swartz story. Why not subsidize the young high school graduates or the retired people?
If you want to hold a coin designed for altruism there is also solarcoin, giftcoin and devcoin.