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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