Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce
On Friday 23 October 2015 09:31:15 Carl Fink wrote:
> 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).
Now that I've had time to think, the name was Smyce or something like
that. And he didn't have it to pay it, so the lein may still be on his
property for all I know. I don't claim to be 100% up to date on it.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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