You've been watching too many movies. On Sep 6, 12:10 am, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]> wrote: > Back to pharma, it could be argued that most or nearly all medicines are not > the result of research but rather they go to the jungle and steal and > extract the potent chemical of some plant. I guess that means that all these > patents have prior art as the local people in that jungle already knew about > the benefits of taken said plant, its only the big pharmaceutical that got > all greedy and decided to charge for something they got for free. This > sounds a lot like open source, where some companies bundle/repackage open > source with some extras for mega bucks. Without the "free" start they would > have nothing.
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