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    14 days ago

    The UI is atrocious, the shortcuts are mind blowingly shite and every fucking tutorial on it assumes knowledge.

    There’s a reason Gimp has near zero market share. Pirated Photoshop versions have a higher market share and for good reason.

    Oh and where the fuck is the draw circle tool? OH no you just use an ellipse and STFU and make a circle tool on a button you nerds.
















  • I did. Did you see the part about it being free only for farms which earn under $10,000 annually?

    Do you have any idea of the history of litigation around cross pollination from GMO crops?

    What happens when a small farmer cross pollinates a larger farm? Do they get sued the same way Monsanto sued farmers for the cross pollination of GMO corn?

    There are many unanswered issues that could arise from allowing golden rice and trusting Western philanthropy, which has been weaponised against developing nations in the past, is a surefire path to costly sabotage.


  • That would be Syngenta, the big agricultural corp involved in the project.

    • Syngenta retains commercial rights, although it has no plans to commercialize Golden Rice.
    • “Humanitarian Use” means (and includes research leading to):
    • Use in developing countries (low-income, food-deficit countries as defined by FAO)
    • Resource-poor farmer use (earning less than US$10,000 per year from farming)

    The key part to me is the under $10,000 USD per year from farming requirement. What happens when a larger farm gets accidental cross pollination?

    What happens to farms with organic certification if their neighbours start growing golden rice and it cross pollinates?

    There is a history of Western nations using “humanitarian” outreach to sabotage developing nations.

    Assuming that Syngenta are entirely altruistic is a huge risk for developing nations.

    Source: http://www.goldenrice.org/Content2-How/how9_IP.php