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pleasepleasePosted Apr 22, 2007 18:30 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: please by niner Parent article: Red Hat tries spreading open-source idea (News.com)
If they are blowing their money on advertising then a better plan would be to eliminate their ability to do advertising (which is just immoral in my opinion).
Problem solved.
It's not like putting the government in charge of these corporations is all of a sudden going to make them go straight. The same people will still exist and the same people will be in charge. Simply because they are the only ones that can do their jobs. If anybody else was able to do a better job.. then they'd be the ones making the money.
Instead of solving anything what will happen is just that they will divert their considurable advertising budget from TV commercials to focus on 'campaign contributions' and getting their own people elected and in positions of power in the government bureaucracy.
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please Posted Apr 22, 2007 22:21 UTC (Sun) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link] there needs to be some way for the doctors to know that the new drugs exist and what they do, telling them about that is advertising.
how can that be immoral? keeping a new wonder-drug a secret from everyone would be far worse.
now these silly 'ask your doctor about X' commercials on TV are a bit silly, but I think it's better for information to be avalible to individuals, even at the cost of putting up with these commercials rather then effectivly telling people "you aren't trained to understand this, so we won't let you learn what your options are, just trust your doctor". no doctor can know everything, and an individual has a lot more time to research thing specific to themselves then the doctor has to research things related to any one patient. having patients asking the doctors 'what about X' is a good thing in that it serves as a check and balance for the doctors training.
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