[Golden Eagle]

Giving technology away to our worldwide competitors is not a wise move, it is not a normal action in any other industry. The international open source crowd has its eyes on our drug advancements as well, I certainly hope you don't think we should give those intellectual property rights away as well?

[unspun]

Giving technology away to our worldwide competitors is not a wise move, it is not a normal action in any other industry.

Plenty of the intellectual elements in our economy are considered public domain. Perhaps the majority of the most essential ones (alphabet, words, phrases, numerics and mathematics, etc.)

The international open source crowd has its eyes on our drug advancements as well, I certainly hope you don't think we should give those intellectual property rights away as well?

Don't get me started about the immorality of the "just how much are your life and health worth?" racketeering, in our healthcare industry, especially in insurance, litigation, and yes, pharmaceuticals, where patents all too often trump concern for patients.

[graf008]

The international open source crowd has its eyes on our drug advancements as well, I certainly hope you don't think we should give those intellectual property rights away as well

If they enforce it on existing patents, that is one thing. But if a drug company creates a drug and then does something to 'open source it', that is different. The latter is what the Open Source movement is about. It isn't about passing government laws to force Apple to release its source code and then mandating that code is freely available. You are not making a coherent argument.