____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 20 November 2007 09:17 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> WHO group to tackle H5N1 virus-sharing dispute
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>>| "These companies and institutions see this as an occasion to obtain patents
>>| and extra profits, and there has been a rapid increase in patenting
>>| activity related to avian influenza," the TWN document states.
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http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/nov1907sharing.html
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> You have to wonder how these people sleep at night. Are they really so
> morally bankrupt that they feel nothing for those who suffer in order
> that they can acquire cash?
I can't recall the guy's name, but he won a Nobel prize for daring to fight
this greed which cost so many lives (probably millions). I posted this to COLA
about 6 months ago.
Knowledge can apparently be owned... even the knowledge of life-saving
techniques. You can't /buy/ this knowledge? Then drop dead.
That's how ridiculous it has become. You know, if aliens were watching us from
above, they'd be ROTFLTAO.
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