And another spanner in the works. Microsoft has allegedly patented SUDO. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111094923390 On 11/12/09, Ashok Hariharan <ashok@parliaments.info> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Joram Mwinamo <joram.mwinamo@gmail.com>wrote:
Imagine a pharmaceutical industry without patents.....wouldnt exist although right now they are evil!
You will be surprised then to learn many pharmaceutical concoctions were never patented (vaccines ..e.g. smallpox .. and antibiotics like pennicilin). The modern pharmaceutical industry exists on the basis of these non-patented inventions. How do you explain that ?
I wish someone had patented fire and sold it to the rest of the world. You and me would be paying money to light a match.
I guess if you havent invented something and had it stolen then you have nothing to worry about or to care for ....which is most of us.
pharmecutical patent regimes in particular go to ridiculous extents which make sense only to americans (e.g. patenting at a molecular level ... patenting processes etc... ). nowadays independent discovery is called theft. do you think fire was disovered only in one place ... or did writing originate only from civilization ... or was the power of speech discovered by one man ?
-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBQ2o0LcmnQ&feature=PlayList&p=B41970323E7D1E...