@tptacek's opinion is much better without resorting to phrases such as "whining is bullshit". > Has Monsanto ever sued anyone... As a car driver in a crowded

@tptacek's opinion is much better without resorting to phrases such as "whining is bullshit". > Has Monsanto ever sued anyone... As a car driver in a crowded city I bend the rules all the time. Just this week alone there were several rules I broke that could have lead to my license being suspended, but because the city is so crowded, the probability of being caught for breaking rules (such as going around a tram pedestrian refuge, or forcing the yellow light) is close to zero, unless you end up in an accident. There is a difference however in what is legal to do and what you can get away with. Our current legislation systems tends to make criminals out of all of us. The example I just gave is a bad one too, because I know exactly what rules I'm breaking and I know exactly the outcome if I get caught, whereas with infringing patents you never know exactly what patents you infringe, or the outcome of that. There's also the issue of selective enforcement. The law should be the same for everybody, otherwise if everybody is a criminal by default, the law gets used to suppress people that are undesirable. It doesn't really matter if Monsanto never sued anyone for using their patented crops without the usage of the Roundup herbicide. The bigger issue is that if you receive some seeds from a friend, planting them in your garden will leave you on the wrong side of the law and you might not even know it.