From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 20:09:50 MDT
>>http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1164914
>>(story about drug companies trying to shut down manufacturers of
>>generics in third-world contries)
> (Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>):
> This is greed and should be "patently" and otherwise illegal.
> There have been much worse instances. Millions have died,
> especially in the third world because of some of the incidents.
> There can be no moral/political justification of such results.
I share you repugnance, but not because it's "greed"--that's a
noble thing. It's wrong because they are trying to use violence,
in the form of patent law, to enforce their monopoly.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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