Comment by dylan604

Comment by dylan604 2 days ago

4 replies

What happens when your decentralized fertilizer mixes with someone's copyrighted/trademarked fertilizer? Do you have to pay them their dues?

If you think this is outlandish, you must not be familiar with Monsanto

bluGill 2 days ago

That is an exaggeration. The only time Monsanto did anything was cases of intentional mixing.

9rx a day ago

> you must not be familiar with Monsanto

It has been out of business for almost seven years now. Who is putting any energy into remembering them at this point?

  • jfengel a day ago

    It's not out of business. It merged with Bayer. It's a change in ownership, and to some degree a change in upper management, but large swathes of the company are unchanged.

    • 9rx a day ago

      Its assets were sold to Bayer and BASF and some former Monsanto workers may have begun working at those other businesses, that is true. That kind of scenario is true of all businesses that close down, though, at least unless they truly have no remaining assets to sell or workers wanting new jobs, both of which are unlikely for anything beyond the simplest of sole proprietorships. By your logic, there is almost no business in history that has ever gone out of business.