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Don’t think it’s as cut-and-dried as you make it out. Shogo @ 02/01/06 11:51:20 Jesus, does Palast ever read what he writes now? TRIPS: the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights rules of the World robert wightman Trade Organization. TRIPS gives Gates a hammerlock on computer operating systems worldwide, legally granting him the kind robert wightman of monopoly the Robber Barons of yore could only dream of. But TRIPS, the rule which helps Gates rule, also bars African governments from buying AIDS, malaria and robert wightman tuberculosis medicine at cheap market prices… So a law that enables Gates to make lots of money also allows pharmaceutical companies to be assholes… and this makes Gates an asshole how? Is there a specific term for this kind of thinking, or is it just ‘dumb’? he is spending an itsy-bitsy part of his monopoly profits (the $6 billion spent by Gates foundation is less than 2% of his net worth) to buy some drugs for a fraction of the dying… Yes, I see Palast’s point clearly now..
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