I think the article is beating around the bush by calling this a "culture war" and stereotyping a lot of people as "techies," "hipster artists," "creatives," et

I think the article is beating around the bush by calling this a "culture war" and stereotyping a lot of people as "techies," "hipster artists," "creatives," etc. Also, it really has nothing to do with whether the result is open sourced or not. GMOs have become a purely political issue. Originally, they were a scientific and technological issue, but then big corporations got a hold of it, captured the regulatory bodies, bought^H^H^H^H^H^Hlobbied some politicians, and sued people all the way to the supreme court. So now it's a question of whether you believe people and corps should be free to tinker with genes and release them into the wild based on self-made safety studies, or whether there should be more laws to regulate (or even ban) GMOs. So all the people threatening to quit Kickstarter over this are taking a political stand, whereas Kickstarter is more just trying to avoid the hot potato (GMO of course), just as they do with guns.