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Ontario Defies U.S. Company Over Cancer Test Patent

Posted by michael on from the all-rights-reserved dept.

An anonymous user sent in a minor bit of news about Ontario and a patented cancer test. The part I found interesting was the price comparison between the patented and non-patented tests - $3000, per test, solely due to the government-granted monopoly. Wow.

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  1. This is going to be major flamebait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Does anyone else see the parallels here between the freeloading that Ontario is attempting and the typical attitude of the "Free Software" contingent?

    They want all the benefit of someone else's hard work without having to pay the actual price for it.