> shiv sastry wrote [ at 09:37 PM 7/29/07 ]:
> >Knowledge, as in "gyan" - especially in
> science, and particularly in Medicine
> >was freely shared in Europe and indeed by the
> US that took over Europe's
> >mantle in many ways.
> >
> >It is the US of the last 40 years or so, with
> its patent lawyers, that has
> >skewed things in this direction.
>
Knowledge, as in texbook material and research
publications, is more freely available today than
40 years ago. In recent years, the US has taken
the lead in making the american biomedical
literature freely available on the internet to
everyone.
shyam
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