Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Submarines Date: 18 Sep 2025 20:17:45 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <108kv17$73g4$5@dont-email.me> <20250827165330.81eb46a2f8f86d5efb83f0c7@127.0.0.1> <108nnmo$t297$1@dont-email.me> <108q123$1g1ph$1@dont-email.me> <108q9ne$1ieq4$1@dont-email.me> <10a3pjn$egqn$1@dont-email.me> <10a4el4$km8l$2@dont-email.me> <10a5s8v$1360o$5@dont-email.me> <10a60uc$148fh$1@dont-email.me> <10a6r88$1d082$1@dont-email.me> <10a8gq3$261sn$1@news1.tnib.de> <10ab8n3$2fauo$2@dont-email.me> <10adta2$33sb9$3@dont-email.me> <10afjpl$3hppa$1@dont-email.me> <7S2dnbHARMet51b1nZ2dnZfqn_cAAAAA@giganews.com> <10agfom$3nvbq$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net aaUL4csG7skDad44ZWGEjgAzXKtW+OKSBvlcX0TZ6mx1bd8hCG Cancel-Lock: sha1:N2UkbmvuRW5JuI0LRvz0eNvQ0jM= sha256:rpncogKaQRs3efqPCbOjLH6gt5WUgsAihB6SIMAKrFQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74491 On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:27:02 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 18/09/2025 04:19, c186282 wrote: >>   If it wasn't so old, an aspirin tab would cost $50 ... > If it wasn't so old, it probably wouldn't pass approvals either. > Yes. biotech is a huge consumer of people's time that has to be paid > for. > > Which is why mots of the big pharmas don't do research. The little guys > do it and when successful, they buy up their patents and their experts > and market the result. > Once patents expire the drug - if it's any good - gets to be 'generic' - > anyone can make it - and it's cost tends towards the cost of production. He didn't last very long but Ramaswamy's resume of pharma wheeling and dealing didn't impress me. I thing Shkreli might be one of his heroes.