Lets see if I understand you correctly. A company created an AIDS cocktail. now, because it was so expensive for them to create, they want a return in the short term, i.e.: 3-5 years. Taking your perspective, would also mean that 1 third from the third world can just stick their heads in the sand and hope some miracle dust will cure them. This method is ridiculous, and should be prohibited. Greedy profiteers always existed throughout history enjoying the suffering of the weak and helpless. Thank you for clearing that out. Also, these so called free market and "I want to make a profit from what 'I' invent" did not take their knowledge from thin air, but studied at a university or a college. Even that Smiley guy had to know how to imprint the smiley on shirts and stamps. He did not invent the shirt or the stamps(fortunatly). i.e: even if you can patent something it doesn't mean you are god and can now stop people from thinking or writing a smiley in their notebooks.
* - * - * Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Cool Site: HTTP://WWW.My2Nis.Com * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of guy keren > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 2:17 PM > To: Gilad Ben-Yossef > Cc: Ely Levy; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset > meeting on open source) > > > > On 15 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > So you think going to a to a leagal argument which someone > spend hours > > on planning and designing, > > and then someone comes after all this effort and say cool > argument/idea > > lets copy it and put it as a precedentm and ofcourse it > takes him a lot > > less time cause the planing and designing is already done. > > i think y'all are getting to radical in your views. let me give you a > counter example, comming from the medical field. > > as you know, the process of designing, testing and manufacturing a new > kind of medicine, tends to cost between 10s of millions of dollars and > hundreads of millions (i'm not talking about the very extreme cases of > research into deseases for which no cure was yet found). > because of the > large investment, laws were formed to give monoply rights to > companies for > selling a given medicine for some period of time. there are also > provisions to break this monopoly prematurely, by a competitor proving > their medicine is better then the original. > > if you'd take away this kind of law, you'll have to find an > alternative > means for making drugs. would these means be governmental? this goes > counter to the current notion that you sohuld take business out of the > government's hands, and into private hands. how would you do that? > > btw, with the law issue you raised, they came to the model > that its not > the lawyer who pays so much - its the client. and in the case > of a poor > clients - its the state (assigning a state attorney to the > client) - but > the state only pays for defending clients - not for clients > who want to > sue other bodies/people. > > now, when you go to software, ely's concern have a point, and y'all > bashing right at him will not make these problems go away. > some things in > the commercial software have given quite a lot of progress, > which denying > will do no good. i do think some kind of protection should be > given - and > i think that the argument is mostly on the balance. and isnce > there is no > protection on ideas, and since only ideas which are hard to implement > properly have commercial value in the sense of selling > software, we should > come up with a way to still handle those ideas which are simple to > implement. free software gives some solution to that. but it will work > properly _if_ people can still make money on selling software, because > many people who write free software, do it in the hope to > learn more, and > in the hope that this learning will eventually allow them to earn a > living. and the fact is that some of you are still > implementing commercial > software (i do to) - and getting payed for that - which is a > justification > to the time spent earlier by y'all on free software. > > -- > guy > > "For world domination - press 1, > or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
