I personally would love to see all software be given away for free. Put all the code on GitHub in the public domain. That's the world I work towards. There'd be just as much money to be made, only it would be spent on actually employing workers and getting stuff done and not on fighting over licenses and intellectual "property".
The patent laws of the US are responsible for Bayer's business model, and in a lot of ways it's a good tradeoff. But it's not the only possible way to figure this stuff out, nor is the money the only possible incentive.
Anyway, it's not like Bayer wasn't aware of India's patent laws. They are still going to make billions on this drug, regardless of what India does, and they can spend that money bribing its government officials to change their patent laws. Don't worry, it'll all work out in the end.
If that happened much software would just move to the (arguably worse) service model where programs won't work offline or run on your local machine, and if the server shuts down you lose everything.
The patent laws of the US are responsible for Bayer's business model, and in a lot of ways it's a good tradeoff. But it's not the only possible way to figure this stuff out, nor is the money the only possible incentive.
Anyway, it's not like Bayer wasn't aware of India's patent laws. They are still going to make billions on this drug, regardless of what India does, and they can spend that money bribing its government officials to change their patent laws. Don't worry, it'll all work out in the end.