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Re:Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto by bduerst on Thursday April 21, 2016 @06:24PM (#11545768)
That's why the roundup ready tech patent expired in 2015. IP creators are given a set timeframe to recooperate costs.

You can now replant your roundup ready seeds, toomuchtodo, as much as you want.

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Re:Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto by toomuchtodo on Thursday April 21, 2016 @06:28PM (#11545790)
A few patents down, 4k-6k more to go.
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Re:Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto by bduerst on Thursday April 21, 2016 @06:49PM (#11545880)
>Or I wait long enough for an intelligent majority of Congress to invalidate the ability to patent or copyright seeds.

Good luck with that, considering the constitution grants Congress the power to promote scientific progress through granting limited exclusive rights to authors. I doubt they will find invalidating seed patents aligned with promoting scientific progress.

Edit: nice redaction

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Re:Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto by toomuchtodo on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:05PM (#11546206)
Tech always wins in the end, and all old men die eventually.
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