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> I'm not sure whether you are aware that the way you described it, it actually is in reality. Note that I'm not talking about industrialised production, but a
by jcelerier 5y ago
> I'm not sure whether you are aware that the way you described it, it actually is in reality.
Note that I'm not talking about industrialised production, but about people selling their fruits at the side of a road, who may not even be farmers but just have a large garden ; we had only 3/4 fruit trees when growing up but it'd often make enough to give kilograms of apricots & such can be given away or sold for a few euros at the local fair. I don't remember anyone getting UE approval to be able to do that, any more than a kid needs UE approval to sell lemonade.
- cookiengineer 5y agoI think Apple (Computers) can't be compared with organic food because Apple's business and operations model implies that everything is protected intellectually with patents. Protecting your manufacturing process via patents implies that "people at the side of the road" don't know how to make it. Otherwise the patent would be nullified. To stay with the metaphor I think we'd have to classify Apple (Computers) as a processed food manufacturer and not the same was as organic food, and also not as something that other people can easily grow themselves in their backyard. That would be probably something like a USB cable or maybe a touchpad or something, but even that far outreaches the knowledge of the general population that are not specialized in the area. Planting a seed and taking care of a plant to grow it, is pretty much doable by a child in comparison.