I will talk about India and Brazil breaking patents further. AT&T orginally designed the C plus programming language, and Unix . Other companies more or less copied AT&T ideas . AT&T made the first microprocessor ,and other companies again more or less copied other companies ideas.

Now, we all know American companeis merely change a few details in order to allow to rip each other off legally . yet the Clinton and the Bush administration wanted to deny Brazil and India the right to create their versions of drugs used to produce HIV. Now, both India, Brazil and South Africa said to hell with the US and went on their own. Which the Bush administration accepted. Partly because any leaders seen caving int othe US would have been seen as traitors under the control of the US and killed.

Now, the US government itself has a law sying it can break patents on drugs if we need to . Bayer AG, a German company, is the only company which was making cipro . Until the Canada, our ally, broke the patents and gave it to a Canadian company because Bayer wasn't producting it fast enough. The Bush administration itself says if need be ,we will break those patents.

So if the US when it needs to breaks patents, what was wrong with India, Brazil, or South Africa doing the same?