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Smart Breeding hints at the solution -- think of it as open source agriculture. The real problem with biotechnology is not the technology, its the corporate culture. Think of Monsanto as Microsoft. It spends billions of dollars developing a product, the workings of which are keep secret. It protects its investment with patents and licenses other sorts of security measures...

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Comments (5)

IGnatiusTFoobar ·
I'm wondering if there's some sort of M-related conspiracy here. All these obnoxious M-based companies: Microsoft, McDonald's, Monsanto... we're going to have to look into that.
dave Story submitter ·
hehehehe. Thanks for the good chuckle. (Mental note to self: never name a company with ^M. :)

dave
greensky ·
don't forget Mike Rowe Soft either...
salparadise ·
oh no! Does that mean Mandrake is going to end up the same way?

dave Story submitter ·
Well, they are going to be changing their name sometime in the future, aren't they?

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/19/180217.shtml

So, they're in the clear. :)

dave

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