Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

i wrote:
> > Well, Monsanto genes are mostly illegal in Europe, anyway.

Curt wrote:
> http://www.globalagriculture.org/whats-new/news/news/en/30521.html

[patented broccoli]

Yep. That's the European Patent Office as we know it.
Happy to hand out patents for anything. This is good for
economy ... say the patent lawyers.

Monsanto's problem is not with getting patents but with
getting permission for their gene manipulated seeds.
Germans mistrust the genetech propaganda because it resembles
the nuclear power propaganda from decades ago.
Same liars = same poison.

The philosophical question is whether one shall applaud
a good decision which is made mainly out of ignorance
and prejudice.
If one is ready to accept the concept of "intellectual property",
then a few bacteria genes cannot but augment ones intellectual
capacity.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas