They must jump through the irrational and expensive hoops of the FDA, and patents are only 20 years (compare with corporate copyright of 75 years). This makes them pursue only blockbuster and knockoff drugs. Stuff for chronic diseases you're going to buy for years.
The boot device is the device from which the operating system is loaded. A modern PC BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) supports booting from various devices. These include the local hard disk drive, optical drive, floppy drive, a network interface card, and a USB device.
To load and initialise the operating system on a computer. Normally abbreviated to boot. From the curious expression to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, one of the legendary feats of Baron von Munchhausen. The bootstrap loader is the program that runs on the computer before any (normal) program can run. Derived terms include reboot, cold boot, warm boot, soft boot and hard boot. The term also applies to the use of a compiler to compile itself.