• @BarbecueCowboy
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    6 months ago

    You joke, but that’s actually a really interesting story. Jonas Salk, the developer of the first polio vaccine was adamantly against even patenting it and claimed that it ‘belonged to the people’. There is some potential controversy there, but we mostly just think he was a pretty great dude. Dude’s a fucking hero regardless.

    I get the analogy you’re trying to make, but maybe want to switch to something else.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      I get the analogy you’re trying to make, but maybe want to switch to something else.

      Like any other vaccine?

      • @BarbecueCowboy
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        16 months ago

        Yeah, legitimately could choose just about anything else besides polio and it would have landed pretty well.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t really see how that goes against it. If anything it shows that some people will totally disregard profit in favor of bettering humanity. See also: the patent for insulin.