Re: Another one bites the dust: Oracle buys Sleepycat Database

Volker Hetzer wrote:
> kwr2k schrieb:
> >> It must be fun being a zealot. Next time you get a serious infection by
> >> all means avail yourself of one of those alternative treatments.
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> >> Homeopathy? ROFL!
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> > It must be fun being a corporate culture junkie!! Because Oracle has
> > the largest blah, no one can (or should) try to see alternatives ...
> > hmm isn't that people like you have been saying about windows (when
> > using unix probably all their life in the data centers?) And yes, you
> > may ROFL but there's no denying that allopathy also is a monopoly of
> > sorts.
> There is? I thought there's lots of vendors?

The purpose of patents is to maintain an monopoly. The large pharmaceutical manufacturers are valued based on the cash flow provided through the excess profit generated. Watch their stock prices as the patents expire, it's no secret. Generic-brand manufacturers gear up to jump on the products as the patents expire.

The drug development process is so capital and time intensive it is difficult to get it done before the patents expire or the money runs out. A number of Oracle jobs are created or eliminated as a result.

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> > You are a typical western product, Daniel and I don't really blame you
> > personally for that. It is your last 50 years of brainwashing that is
> > talking. Do you know what a typical "life saving" allopathic drug costs
> > in India? around USD 20. Do you know how much is that in INR? Its 1000.
> > That is monthly salary for at least 40% of India. So, how far have you
> > been from your ivory tower? My family has grown up consulting
> > homeopathic doctors and we're doing fine, thank you!
> Great. Once you get AIDS you cure it wit garlic and olive oil, like those
> south african healers recommend, right?
> I've seen people dying of that kind of medicine.
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> Sorry kid, I call something medicine if it passes the standard double blind
> test. Everything else is at best psychology, at worst murder for financial gain.

Some homeopathy is done to scientific standards. Unfortunately, too much is quackery, like laetrile clinics in Tijuana. Some allopathy is certainly "silver-bullet" quick-fixes, rather than fixing the root cause. The majority of US hospital patients are there because of how they have been medically treated. Superbugs are being created through the standard use of antibiotics. Health Maintenance Organizations function by assuming people will get usually better on their own no matter what you do, just worry about it when they don't. Old people must choose between food and drugs.

We could go on...

jg

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