RE: Do patents really foster innovation? RE: Mild psychoactive drugs

From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 02:13:45 MST

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    > 2) In the absence of economic incentives, that innovation has been
    > driven by personal preference on the part of the innovator, not
    > necessarily by the desires of the market.

    Those two things ("personal preference" and "desires of the market") are not
    in fact different. They are the same thing.

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