tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631405922607116203.post3590970750613742064..comments2024-03-27T09:23:57.618+00:00Comments on JIPLP: July JIPLP: an Africa-oriented editorialUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631405922607116203.post-59723194788255710512012-08-20T15:04:42.595+01:002012-08-20T15:04:42.595+01:00What right does any external organization have to ...What right does any external organization have to conceive a "development plan" for Africa? Colonialism is not welcome here. Intellectual property law is a dirty business that only serves to keep Africa down, as solutions cannot be widely implemented without kickbacks to the originator. I use the term loosely, because of course no ideas are original; they are always based on a mish-mash of other people's ideas. For goodness' sake, you even suggest placing our use of plants under intellectual property law - how very Monsanto of you. <br /><br />Curious minds want to know, do you consider Monsanto to be benefiting Africa, too? What with their intellectual property lawsuits and requiring dirt poor farmers to buy their infertile seed each and every season. This is why farmers in our less wise neighbouring countries which accept GMO are commit suicide whenever there is a single failed crop; you can't replant the seed, it's under IP law and infertile to boot.<br /><br />Let those of us who live here help each other - no more of our countries need to be thrown into deeper debt by interest-bearing loans hideously called 'aid' or to restrict each other's use of ideas through IP law.<br /><br />Writing from Zambia - ya know, the country represented in your image by the flag of ZIMBABWE? You have no business writing about Africa.Shamus Machttp://shamusmac.comnoreply@blogger.com