Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:24:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Hell of an idea. That patenting of germplasm was a bad idea, and will
> forever be a bad idea. This should begin to level the playing field
> between the monsantos, and syngenta's of the world. I've seen this
> before, but when monsanto sued Percy Smyth was when it should have been
> slapped down once and for all time. He is the canadian farmer who got
> sued and lost, because the wind blew pollen into his fields from a
> neighbors patented wheat.
You might want to research what really happened in that case (Smyth paid
nothing, for starters).
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