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Re: Patents

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From: Joshua Osborne
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 1990 03:41
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In article <9007122003.AA07821@hermite.mit.edu> gnu-misc-discuss@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
>I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear -- I'm not trying to judge the
>morality of the various players, I was just noting that one wants drug
>companies to spend money on developing and testing drugs, one must
>give them some mechanism to profit thereby.  At present, drug patents
>are the only mechanism for doing so.
[...]
>This is an example where the patent system has significantly boosted
>commercial research, and in so far as you consider capitalism morally
>acceptable, it has aided the economy.

But is Look & Feel the way aspirin cures headaches, or just what aspirin does?
If it is the way then we can't have anything "Little, Yellow, Diffrent", or
even Buffrin.  Sucks doesn't it?
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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
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