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WorkIsSlow@lemmy.world 6 months agoNo clue why you’re being down voted. Youre right.
Gates chose to patent life saving medicine during a global pandemic.
The consequences of that decision are essentially withholding lifesaving medicine because it makes him more money.
schema@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Which vaccine did he patent? As far as I remember he only spoke out for not lifting ongoing patents on the vaccines, and then revered course as criticism grew bigger.
uzay@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Even before any of the vaccines were finished, there were plans to not grant them any patent protection so they can be produced and distributed as widely as possible. Gates and his foundation lobbied hard against that and instead came up with the bullshit plan to have rich countries buy vaccines for poor countries, which helped no one but the insane profits of the pharma companies. In the case of the vaccine developed with public funding by the Oxford University, Gates actively talked them out of releasing it with an open license, so they sold it to AstraZeneca instead.
wired.com/…/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-ga…
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 6 months ago
RocketBoots@programming.dev 6 months ago
Don’t waste your breath. I’m done with this platform. I hoped it would deliver what reddit couldn’t, but I was wrong.
I don’t think I’ll ever find another platform that encouraged such measured responses. Every thing is either team red or team blue. I just hate how much people are willing ignore so their side can win. Maybe that’s just all of the internet now. That’s fine, it’s just that it’s no longer for me.