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  • From: DeBug <debug AT centras.lt>
  • To: Community Studios <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Community_studios] article comment 063003
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:00:30 +0300

tp> It costs billions to develop and
tp> test new medicines until a commercially feasible one is found. Without a
tp> patent on this, competitors would be able to copy the drug and benefit
tp> from the other company's research and development.

tp> It doesn't take a genius to work out that without this protection, there
would be no new
tp> drugs."
I can't help commenting on that old lie.
the statement above is false.

New drugs are not invented for profiting only.
People who have diseases would pay for inventing the drugs even without
patent protection.

so "there would be no new drugs" is absurd like saying
"without patents there would be no free software like Linux"





  • Re: [Community_studios] article comment 063003, DeBug, 07/14/2003

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