OldSSSCGuy
Active member
Just a request for opinion...
When you look at the potential blood on the floor being generated by patents by mega-scum like Canopy, GW Pharm, Monsanto, etc. - can or will breeders start to declare their cultivars as 'open source' to help set up a wall against the coming corporatization of cannabis? As these greedy bastards benefit and profit from the decades of hard work done by breeders they are sure to find ways to patent not just brands, logos and related foofaa but the genetics of some cultivars also. Once they can do that - next might be moving up to attempting to patent the source legend genetics (i.e. Monsanto). Look at what happened with the California strawberry industry.
But if breeders - especially those who sell their seed or cuttings - made formal statements of the strains being releases under some sort of open source license would that help to buffer against this event? Obviously then that might lead to the corporates claiming rights to legend genetics and phenotypes by claiming patent violations, wouldn't it?
Part of my logic comes from a conversation I had a few years back with a 'large seed breeder guy/company' from Humboldt. He spoke of how he and others were banding together in a move to try and patent their cultivars -- and that really turned me off. If instead they banded together to proclaim their strains to be sold open source; especially when they are selling their regular and fem seed for growing and breeding anyway.
When you look at the potential blood on the floor being generated by patents by mega-scum like Canopy, GW Pharm, Monsanto, etc. - can or will breeders start to declare their cultivars as 'open source' to help set up a wall against the coming corporatization of cannabis? As these greedy bastards benefit and profit from the decades of hard work done by breeders they are sure to find ways to patent not just brands, logos and related foofaa but the genetics of some cultivars also. Once they can do that - next might be moving up to attempting to patent the source legend genetics (i.e. Monsanto). Look at what happened with the California strawberry industry.
But if breeders - especially those who sell their seed or cuttings - made formal statements of the strains being releases under some sort of open source license would that help to buffer against this event? Obviously then that might lead to the corporates claiming rights to legend genetics and phenotypes by claiming patent violations, wouldn't it?
Part of my logic comes from a conversation I had a few years back with a 'large seed breeder guy/company' from Humboldt. He spoke of how he and others were banding together in a move to try and patent their cultivars -- and that really turned me off. If instead they banded together to proclaim their strains to be sold open source; especially when they are selling their regular and fem seed for growing and breeding anyway.