[Fsf-friends] Is this true?
CK Raju
ckra@vsnl.net
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:32:47 +0530
I would rather look at it from another angle.
What if this is an idea of a 'sustainable marriage formula' between the
benefactors of 'commercial patent' regime in the drug and software industries?
. Getting a huge and diverse population, to 'test' under-production untested
AIDS prescriptions, that too with State protection, transforming the affected
citizens here as guinea pigs, cannot also be ruled out .
We may soon have another combination of Pfizer or Ranbaxy, coming up to some
part in India and saying that poor quality food is the reason for all the
illness, which can be avoided with genetically modified rice or wheat seeds.
After gaining inroads to the State machinery (obviously foreign-fund stricken
elected heads may compete to grab the offering) this 'charity funding' may
eventually succeed in eliminating all natural seeds (as States may be forced
to push through the genetically modified terminator seeds through subsidies).
The next offering would be from Mosanto Inc, on commercial and proprietary
software and this vicious cycle may continue forever. This unholy combination
of commercial patents in 'agriculture, software and drug' have the power to
take on any country in this globe, and the best of brains there (could be
even Indian) who are at work, might be doing this just to ensure his living.
Does this reasoning sound more appealing?
CK Raju
Thrissur