Comment Re:Pharma and "fairness" (Score 1) 778
This is off topic, but you are wrong about pharma research. Most of it is done at universities by students and professors who then licenses it to the pharma company for a cut of the profits.
This is a flawed analogy for Bill to use as well: almost all universities (in the US at least) benefit from public subsidies, wether it be tax breaks, Pell grants for students or land grants when the university was built.
Another flaw with private pharma research is different companies will not co-operate. See the history of the 'AIDS cocktail' and how India had to ignore patents so they could make one pill with all three meds combined. This was better for the patients.
What a pile of tripe! The richest man in the world, who has built the biggest illegal monopoly in human history, is complaining about FOSS. He can go fuck himself with a fist punched up his ass.
This is a flawed analogy for Bill to use as well: almost all universities (in the US at least) benefit from public subsidies, wether it be tax breaks, Pell grants for students or land grants when the university was built.
Another flaw with private pharma research is different companies will not co-operate. See the history of the 'AIDS cocktail' and how India had to ignore patents so they could make one pill with all three meds combined. This was better for the patients.
What a pile of tripe! The richest man in the world, who has built the biggest illegal monopoly in human history, is complaining about FOSS. He can go fuck himself with a fist punched up his ass.
