This one's OT, but since the discussion drifted to AIDS medicine, I'd like to point out this commentary: http://www.time.com/time/2001/aidsinafrica/drugs.html
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > obviously you did not notice I replied someone. I know the difference between a drug >and a software. > But you must understand that if a person cannot pay you the amount you charge you >should not withhold the drug from him. In case you are not aware of the fact that >many profiteers usually destroy their some of their product in order to increase the >worth of their drug. > All these means that if you are not going to profit on something anyway, you might >as well give it for zero profit and charge only production costs. > They would not loose a penny if they gave the cocktail to developing courtiers or >allowed them to use > the drug for themselves. People who do not understand that, actually aiding these >profiteers to > increase the demand for their product by allowing AIDS to spread to their country! > MEANING, if the idiots started working on AIDS before it got to you, they wouldn't >profit on you! > Also, please note that its not like they will not profit on this product if they >charge less, they will just make > less zeros in their bank account than they want too and return the investment a >month later. > (we are not talking about aspirin, this is a billion dolar a year market) > > * - * - * > Tzahi Fadida > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My Cool Site: HTTP://WWW.My2Nis.Com -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net ================================================================= 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]
