[Fsf-friends] Is this true?

[CK Raju]

I would rather look at it from another angle.

 What if this is an idea of a 'sustainable marriage formula' between the 
benefactors of 'commercial patent' regime in the drug and software industries?

. Getting a huge and diverse population, to 'test'  under-production untested 
AIDS prescriptions, that too with State protection, transforming the affected 
citizens here as guinea pigs, cannot also be ruled out . 

We may soon have another combination of Pfizer or  Ranbaxy, coming up to some 
part in India and saying that poor quality food  is the reason for all the 
illness, which can be avoided with genetically  modified rice or wheat seeds. 
After gaining inroads to the State machinery (obviously foreign-fund stricken 
elected heads may compete to grab the offering) this 'charity funding' may 
eventually succeed in eliminating all natural seeds (as States may be forced 
to push through the genetically modified terminator seeds through subsidies).

The next offering would be from Mosanto Inc, on commercial and proprietary 
software and this vicious cycle may continue forever. This unholy combination 
of commercial patents in 'agriculture, software and  drug' have the power to 
take on any country in this globe, and the best of brains there (could be 
even Indian) who are at work, might be doing this just to ensure his living.

 Does this reasoning sound more appealing?

 CK Raju
Thrissur