obviously you did not notice I replied someone. I know the difference between a drug and a software. But you must understand that if a person cannot pay you the amount you charge you should not withhold the drug from him. In case you are not aware of the fact that many profiteers usually destroy their some of their product in order to increase the worth of their drug. All these means that if you are not going to profit on something anyway, you might as well give it for zero profit and charge only production costs. They would not loose a penny if they gave the cocktail to developing courtiers or allowed them to use the drug for themselves. People who do not understand that, actually aiding these profiteers to increase the demand for their product by allowing AIDS to spread to their country! MEANING, if the idiots started working on AIDS before it got to you, they wouldn't profit on you! Also, please note that its not like they will not profit on this product if they charge less, they will just make less zeros in their bank account than they want too and return the investment a month later. (we are not talking about aspirin, this is a billion dolar a year market)
* - * - * Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Cool Site: HTTP://WWW.My2Nis.Com * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 4:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: guy keren; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset > meeting on open source) > > > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > Lets see if I understand you correctly. A company created > an AIDS cocktail. now, because it was so expensive for them > to create, they want a return in the short term, i.e.: 3-5 > years. Taking your perspective, would also mean that 1 third > from the third world can just stick their heads in the sand > > and hope some miracle dust will cure them. This method is > ridiculous, and should be prohibited. Greedy > > profiteers always existed throughout history enjoying the > suffering of the weak and helpless. > > Thank you for clearing that out. > > But you are missing an important point. In order to create > the "cocktail", > the cost of testing the medicines and the paperwork involved > was several > million dollars just to reach the point that applications for testing > on humans was reached. Condisdering the production costs of the drugs > involved, they would be over $10,000,000 in the hole before > they stated. > > Once they received approval for human testing, the cost of tests could > be another $5,000,000 PLUS 20-30 million for the drugs. The > final result > would be, in the US, assuming favorable saftey and efficacy results, > well over 300,000 pages of documentaton, submitted on line in > searchable > form and 9 paper copies. > > Now they wait the 3-5 years for the FDA to approve (or not) the drug. > During that time, they may be able to get "fast track" approval, and > only wait 2 years. > > If at any time the FDA, who is constantly monitoring the > process decides > the drug is too dangerous or does not work the whole thing > stops and all > the invested money goes down the toilet. > > So don't make the mistake of confusing a couple of Israeli > teenagers in a > hole in the wall office in silicon valley (e.g. ICQ), with > the process of > developing ethical pharmaceuticals. > > Geoff. > > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson > Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of London, 7 hours > ahead of New York. > Tel: 972-(0)3-754-1158 Fax 972-(0)3-754-1236 Email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
