A contented linux user

[Alma J Wetzker]

Collins Richey <erichey2 at comcast.net> Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:34:04 -0600
> [ snips ]
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:50:49 -0400
> Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
> 
> >     <OT_RANT>I can't help but compare this situation to the
>>     drug industry. We Americans pay more for pharmaceuticals
>>     because we respect copyright laws ... 
>>     This can't go on,
>>     and already Americans are finding out ways to buy cheaper
>>     drugs from Canada. This will of course lead to fundelmental
>>     changes in the pharmaceutical industry, that is to say,
>>     a lot less drug research and a lot fewer new drugs.  </OT_RANT>
>>
> Wrong, in true American fashion, this will only lead to new draconian laws that make it
> highly illegal for Americans to purchase cheaper drugs from abroad.  The American drug
> companies will be protected at all costs.

Extant laws will do.  If the drug companies change any step in the 
production or packaging of the product, the FDA must reaprove the 
process.  So changing the final packaging will make the drugs illegal in 
the US.  Problem solved.

     -- Alma