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First Seeds, Now Software?
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Thursday, June 17 @ 17:48:11 EDT
Contributed by Jed_Adam_Gross
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Jed_Adam_Gross writes "Sarah Schafer of Newsweek (which is affiliated with MSNBC) reports that the Chinese government "has been sympathetic to [software] pirates . . . and has officially embraced Linux," noting, "Cheap software has been critical to China's economic boom."

This aspect of China's economic development is reminiscent of the early history of agriculture in the US, when public officials encouraged Americans to collect seed samples from abroad and facilitated breeding experiments in the absence of legal IP protection for plant varieties. Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr.'s First the Seed offers a comprehensive history of the plant ag field, despite Kloppenburg's sometimes polemical tone."

 
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