Terminator has become synonymous with corporate greed.
People instinctively know that sterile seeds are bad for farmers and food security.
Nobody will ever trust a biotech company not to use an invention it owns. If they were really committed to not using it, they could sell it to us. This changes nothing. The shadow is still there. US patent number 5,723,765 has been the spark that lit a fire under Monsanto and the other GM companies that have been buying up seed companies and moving heavily into farming in poor countries.