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Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

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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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[OT] Linux for Lettuce Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-10-23 11:10 +0200
  Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-23 12:00 +0200
  Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-10-23 14:30 +0200
    Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2015-10-23 15:40 +0200
      Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-10-23 17:10 +0200
        Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-10-23 17:30 +0200
          Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-10-24 11:30 +0200
            Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-10-24 12:50 +0200
              Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-10-28 16:50 +0100
                Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-10-28 19:00 +0100

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