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To: Steve Lee who wrote (100911)3/15/2000 8:22:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
**Final OT**

We are not talking about any remedy whatsoever here. It is patenting gene sequences which are common to us all. Should Albert Einstein have been able to patent E=MC2? Are all naturally occurring events now patentable and therefore profitable? Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

BK



To: Steve Lee who wrote (100911)3/15/2000 11:35:00 PM
From: Dinesh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
*OT*

Steve

Nobody has ever had the financial incentive to develop a
remedy for a *rare* genetic illness. Medicine is business:
don't spoil it by bringing humanity into it.

The gene sequences under question are the common ones.

Regards
Dinesh



To: Steve Lee who wrote (100911)3/16/2000 11:25:00 AM
From: Proud_Infidel  Respond to of 186894
 
**OT**

Where would we all be now if every web page had to pay a royalty to Tim Berners-Lee for developing http? How about all other similar discoveries: ftp, HTML formatting etc etc. Do you really think we would be where we are?

BK