Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Monsanto's problem is not with getting patents but with > > getting permission for their gene manipulated seeds. Ron wrote: > Problem is not with their genetically modified stuff, but with their refusal > to let GM stuff be labelled as such. That's a slightly different (off-)top

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-28 Thread Ron
On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:50:04 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > 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

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-24 Thread Curt
On 2015-10-23, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Well, Monsanto genes are mostly illegal in Europe, anyway. > (Our patent office granted a patent on human genes. Against the > law. Then it claimed the law prohibited to revoke it. > Finally the patent holder gave it back after too much hate > mail.) >

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > Now that I've had time to think, the name was Smyce Percy Schmeiser's legal adventures match the story. I understand he purposefully used the windfall genes from the neighbor fields to produce his own Monsanto seeds. (Canola (tm), not rapeseed, because people would not b

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 October 2015 09:31:15 Carl Fink wrote: > 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 syn

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
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

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 October 2015 05:01:01 Curt wrote: > Thought some of you revolutionaries might be interested in the > following article on the Virginia Quarterly Review website: > > http://www.vqronline.org/reporting-articles/2014/05/linux-lettuce Hell of an idea. That patenting of germplasm was a b

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 09:01:01AM +, Curt wrote: > Thought some of you revolutionaries might be interested in the following > article on the Virginia Quarterly Review website: > > http://www.vqronline.org/reporting-articles/2014/05/linux-lettuce

[OT] Linux for Lettuce

2015-10-23 Thread Curt
Thought some of you revolutionaries might be interested in the following article on the Virginia Quarterly Review website: http://www.vqronline.org/reporting-articles/2014/05/linux-lettuce