Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 11:08:18 EET

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 09:11 +0100, olivier wrote:
> >Lee wrote:
>
> >No one else has any
> >right to my creations - they are mine. It is up to
> ME >whether I want
> >to
> >give it away or charge for it or refuse to show it to
> >anyone.
>
> hello,
> in a perfect world, where everybody is ok,
> you are completly right,
> but patent can be a problem about life or death ...
> this article explain it better that I can do:
>
> http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/health/12717990.htm

It sounds like the system works:

"A World Trade Organization agreement reached in 2003 allows countries
facing a public health emergency to issue "compulsory licenses" to
manufacture generic versions of patented drugs."

Lee
Received on Sun Feb 26 20:19:00 2006

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