geni wrote:
2009/1/16 WJhonson@aol.com:
In a message dated 1/15/2009 geniice@gmail.com 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.
Ec