On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:37:10AM +0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lan Barnes wrote: > > Actually, the company I work for makes a REALLY big deal out of ethical > > behavior, inside and outside our walls. And I believe it. > > Your company does R&D right? So you believe that if they discovered a > way to make a device that is more reliable/safer for the patient but > makes them less money than their current way of doing things they would > still bring the new technology to market? >
You bet. But we'd charge what the market would bear. We do medical devices. It's all about more reliable and safer. There are as many quality engineers (and they're real engineers, not lowly test monkeys) as developers. That's damned expensive. Of course, it's more expensive to be sued or shut down by the FDA ... but I suppose the people who have a philosophical distaste for government regulation and liability suits would tell me that considerations like that are un-American or something. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
