Beranger: A unique person with a unique common sense in the EP http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-163393/beranger:a-unique-person-with-a-unique-common-sense-in-the-ep Posts in the discussion thread "Beranger: A unique person with a unique common sense in the EP" - It’s not just about the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. The proposed alternative to pharmaceutical patents starts from the fact that the big pharmaceutical companies officially admit they only spend 15% of their revenues on research, to suggest that the governments could take 20% of what they currently spend on drugs (which is a lot of money!) and allocate it to pharmaceutical research, with the results free to anyone. However, the Pirate Party is the only political party to have asserted that all kind of patents have to be abolished, not only the pharmaceutical patents and the software patents! http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-163393#post-511597 Beranger: A unique person with a unique common sense in the EP http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-163393/beranger:a-unique-person-with-a-unique-common-sense-in-the-ep#post-511597 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:53:07 +0000 zoobab 2946 "It’s not just about the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. The proposed alternative to pharmaceutical patents starts from the fact that the big pharmaceutical companies officially admit they only spend 15% of their revenues on research, to suggest that the governments could take 20% of what they currently spend on drugs (which is a lot of money!) and allocate it to pharmaceutical research, with the results free to anyone. However, the Pirate Party is the only political party to have asserted that all kind of patents have to be abolished, not only the pharmaceutical patents and the software patents!"

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