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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by amerine on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:12AM (#20571670)
A simple upvote is not enough of a show of agreement for this perspective. Genetics should not be own-able.
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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by colordrops on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @02:12AM (#20572059)
Genetics is information. Do you believe information should not be ownable? I think we should not be able to own any information. Information is like fire. It takes no space and costs nothing to replicate. Taking the concept ownership developed with physical objects and applying it to information is ridiculous. It's like owning clouds.
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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by msh on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @02:24AM (#20572101)
There is a difference between information naturally occuring and created by someone.
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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by ciconia on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:16AM (#20572544)
Information is always created by someone. Creation does not necessarily mean ownership.
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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by ijidak on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:22AM (#20572561)
Wait... Who created the information in DNA?

How does that tie to ownership?

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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by krageon on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:08AM (#20573306)
Nobody created it, the argument makes no sense in the case of naturally occurring DNA.
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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by colordrops on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @03:32PM (#20577466)
Physical objects are not the same as information. We create all information. Hard drives are just atoms arranged a particular way and how we interact and process those atoms adds the information layer on top. Same goes for DNA.
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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by ijidak on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:40PM (#20576504)
> Nobody created it

I don't think we can state that as a fact, can we?

I was just watching this discussion here yesterday: https://youtu.be/noj4phMT9OE.

Very interesting points made.

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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by tomc1985 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @02:31AM (#20572124)
> It's like owning clouds.

Hah, tell that to FANG!

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