From as early as January, but since I'm currently cooking potatoes, it reminded me again: The End of a Potato Variety: Soon No More Linda. About the attempt by the previous patent holder to restrict the availability of the potato variety Linda to avoid competition - a good example of what patents and free market really mean: ultimately only monopolistic tendencies and monopolistic consolidations.
Does anyone really believe that potatoes and algorithms are so different that such activities will not occur in the IT industry when implementing software patents? Who is the winner in such a situation - the customer for whom a potato variety disappears, the small farmer or greengrocer who can no longer supply a well-known product to their customers, or the large corporation that holds the patent? Actually, the patent would have expired, actually, real competition could now begin. Actually ...
By the way, the loss of the potato variety Linda is more than annoying - it was one of the few varieties I like and that also survived Jutta ...