geni wrote: > 2009/1/16 <[email protected]>: > >> In a message dated 1/15/2009 [email protected] writes: >> >> Just about every company that makes Generic pharmaceutics.>> >> --------------------- >> So you're advocating stealing from pharmacies to get free drugs? >> Otherwise I don't see the point in this example >> We're talking about *free* here after all >> > Sigh. Companies that make generic pharmaceutical are making a product > I am free to take, analyse and copy (okey so in reality I'd just look > up the expired patent). They cannot control exclussive access to the > stuff. And yet they make money. > > Copying patented drugs is indeed far removed from holding up the local pharmacy at gunpoint. The pharmaceutical industry knows more than a thing or two about theft. I can't really blame the South African government when it offered to produce AIDS drugs domestically and distribute them to the poor for substantially less than ther patent holders.
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