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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.sci,net.research,net.bio
Subject: Re: Copy protected Genes
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 18:29:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 18:29:21 1985
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	"It seems that this proprietary business may be going a little
	too far.  If companies strive to withold libraries of plant
	seeds etc., in order to protect their investments, we all
	suffer."

More "the world owes me a living" hogwash.  If a company withholds a
plant seed that it developed, you don't suffer one whit more than if
they hadn't spent the millions of dollars in R&D funds to develop it in
the first place.

If Monsanto is denied copy protection for their improved breed of
plants, they will be unable to recoup their investment, and they will
have no further economic motivation to continue creating better
hybrids.  This won't help feed the world at all.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]