[Gllug] Regarding priracy (sic)

[Dermot Moynihan]

At 12:21 07/03/03, you wrote:

>Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>>On Thu 06 Mar, Sean Burlington bloviated thus:
>>
>>>In fact I find making medicine a business fairly grim at the best of 
>>>times - I am not convinced that this is the only way to do it...
>>
>>A business that doesn't stand up to economic scrutiny, either.  The
>>business of discovering drugs is heavily subsidised by government who
>>provides the funds for the basic research on which the entire process
>>rests.
>
>and its not just medicine - a great deal of technology is derived from 
>publicly funded research

Yep. The arms trade (British Aerospace springs to mind) does very nicely. 
Very shortly now they will be given the chance to see how well the stuff 
works. Should get them a few new contracts. One of the advantages of us 
having an ethical foreign policy?

<snip>

>just one of the ways tax money disproportionately benefits rich 
>shareholders...

Indeed.

rgds
dermot

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>Sean