[Gllug] Regarding priracy (sic)

[Sean Burlington]

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 - and then given to businesses to make money 
from (the internet for example)

was Unix developed at universities originally ?

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

-- 

Sean


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