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Re:The US Supreme Court is hearing a case about patent law’s... by zebrafish on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @10:22AM (#13931092)
I'm not opposed to a different system for different industries.

I'm just saying that, for example, I don't think we would've discovered a hep-c drug without the incentive of exclusive rights to sell the drug. I think the individual researchers are probably motivated by their desire to help people, but corporations don't run on altruism.

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Re:The US Supreme Court is hearing a case about patent law’s... by ue_ on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @10:25AM (#13931126)
It would be nice if the tools and means of production were owned by the individual researchers, then.
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Re:The US Supreme Court is hearing a case about patent law’s... by zebrafish on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @10:34AM (#13931232)
So you would be a proponent of all drug companies being employee-owned partnerships?

Where does the money come from for large capital expenditures like a research facility or production line?

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