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Old January 4, 2016   #52
goodwin
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Great discussion. I've argued for a while that we need something in place like the open source software community has. So I was encouraged to see what the Dwarf Project and others are doing with the Open Source Seed Initiative. Maybe nctomatoman can discuss that a bit because it has real potential.
Down the road, as it becomes easier and cheaper to obtain the genetic sequence of a particular tomato, we can eliminate some duplicate named varieties. We may also be able to eliminate the possibility that a commercial seed company will rip off our work or patent the variety.

Lee

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