Re:“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers
by Kalium on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:12PM
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Then, without a license, he had no right to exploit the patented technology. The farmer acted in a way that showed a knowing and deliberate exploitation of the patented technology. There seems to be a disconnect here, but I'm not seeing it. Can you help me with what I've missed?
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Re:“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers
by UncleEntity on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:06PM
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You need a license to produce and sell patented technology.
You don’t need a license to use patented technology which you either bought from a third party, was given or has blown onto your land by the wind.
Re:“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers
by gruez on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:22PM
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This thread is going in circles. As mentioned a few comments ago, it's clearly not the case that the technology "blown onto your land by the wind". The farmer was intentionally engaging in artificial selection to get plants with roundup ready traits. I can be sympathetic to the claim that a patented program magically appeared on your computer because of random bit-flips, but I can't be sympathetic if you deliberately set up a system to generate bit-flips on your computer in a specific way so as to produce the desired program.
Re:“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers
by pfdietz on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:26AM
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And note that this farmer would not have successfully obtained glyphosate resistant plants just by spraying his field, in the absence of the contamination. If it were that easy, GMOs wouldn't have been necessary in the first place.