That origin story came directly from a former Samsung Electronics engineer surnamed Jeon, according to Maeil Business. The veteran employee spent almost three decades at Samsung before...
When companies are not able to produce enough to satisfy demand and are actively stopping selling to certain sectors and harming them, they should lose their patents. RAM companies are actively harming all of us by selling their products to the AI companies and leaving us all without RAM, so we should encourage alternatives.
When companies are not able to produce enough to satisfy demand and are actively stopping selling to certain sectors and harming them, they should lose their patents.
Except they stop selling to certain sectors because these sectors pay less. I am pretty sure that if a laptop maker ask to buy the RAM at a 50% higher price than AI companies, the RAM producer will happily sell to them.
RAM companies are actively harming all of us by selling their products to the AI companies and leaving us all without RAM, so we should encourage alternatives.
And how do you plan to keep these alternatives from selling to the higher bidder, which will probably be a AI company ?
There is also an FDA Shortage list (most countries have a similar list).
A drug on that list gives the government additional powers to allow companies to work around the parents.
I think this is why there has been so many “off-brand” weight loss drugs recently. Novo Nordisk had supply chain issues with semaglutide, triggering governments to allow other manufacturers
Oh look, 'Murica brain…
It’s a common thing in a lot of the world. I’ve been on many medications throughout the years and all of them have had several options at each of the several drug store companies, and the default is always the cheapest. They always ask “are you ok with another brand?” if there’s a cheaper one than the one written on the prescription.
The Gates Foundation had strong objections to releasing the covid-19 patents. I’m sure they had some sort of rationale that wasn’t "this would set a bad precedent for M$ patents.
When companies are not able to produce enough to satisfy demand and are actively stopping selling to certain sectors and harming them, they should lose their patents. RAM companies are actively harming all of us by selling their products to the AI companies and leaving us all without RAM, so we should encourage alternatives.
Except they stop selling to certain sectors because these sectors pay less. I am pretty sure that if a laptop maker ask to buy the RAM at a 50% higher price than AI companies, the RAM producer will happily sell to them.
And how do you plan to keep these alternatives from selling to the higher bidder, which will probably be a AI company ?
Sure for RAM but holy shit why is not done for medicine?
It is. It’s called Compulsory Licensing.
There is also an FDA Shortage list (most countries have a similar list).
A drug on that list gives the government additional powers to allow companies to work around the parents.
I think this is why there has been so many “off-brand” weight loss drugs recently. Novo Nordisk had supply chain issues with semaglutide, triggering governments to allow other manufacturers
Oh look, 'Murica brain…
It’s a common thing in a lot of the world. I’ve been on many medications throughout the years and all of them have had several options at each of the several drug store companies, and the default is always the cheapest. They always ask “are you ok with another brand?” if there’s a cheaper one than the one written on the prescription.
Generics exist in America too.
Because that would be something Jesus would approve of and we can’t allow that
Supply Side Jesus would approve.
Of course Jesus is all about the supply side; there’s less and less demand for him.
Kinda is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license?wprov=sfla1
The issue is that the USA threatened to sanction India over issuing compulsory licenses https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/india-faces-us-sanction-threat/articleshow/30309068.cms
The Gates Foundation had strong objections to releasing the covid-19 patents. I’m sure they had some sort of rationale that wasn’t "this would set a bad precedent for M$ patents.
India did it.
So patents are stopping the whole market competition thing, like what how capitalism is supposed to work and all that.
Only way how capitalism works is that the rich are just becoming the richer by exploiting the poor(er).
OK, but the leak in the article seems to have been in 2016 when conditions were very different.
The RAM industry has been a cartel for decades.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/atr/public/press_releases/2005/212002.htm