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Mozilla To Ditch Firefox Extensions?

Posted by Soulskill on from the greasemonkeying-around-with-a-good-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Although some have raised concerns about how sane switching to Jetpack is, it seems that Mozilla's new gadget is bound to replace the powerful extension mechanism we know. Maybe Mozilla wants to replace all the great add-ons we use daily with gadgets that add an entry to the Tools menu, or maybe they just want to draw thousands of inexperienced developers into putting together a bunch of HTML and CSS that won't integrate in the UI. It seems to me that in light of recent decisions we've discussed before, Mozilla isn't going in the right direction. What do you think ?"

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  1. New Drugs Or Generics? by westlake · · Score: 0, Troll

    During the 1990s, developing nations began to amass the manufacturing capability and expertise to produce advanced pharmaceuticals for minute fractions of the wholesale cost of those drugs on the world marketplace, the price being set by the IP holders in Western countries who enjoyed the political access necessary to keep extending patent lifetimes and extensions almost indefinitely.

    Were these manufacturers producing new drugs or generic versions of the western Big Pharm product?

    There is a difference - and it is a difference that matters.

    Big Pharm has the money to research and develop new drugs.

    It has the resources - though perhaps not always the will - to test its new products in meaningful and ethical ways.

    There is a western market for the AIDS drug or vaccine.

    But it does not take the same shape, it is not as large or as urgent as what is needed in Africa.

    There are other diseases of course which are almost entirely third-world - and Big Pharm is not a charity.

    If you want - if you need - its participation, you have to offer incentives. You have to help pay the bills.