And I think a push is now underway in the US and Japan to jointly approach Syngenta to discuss the possibility. Steve Briggs, however, puts a different gloss on the situation. Our data is publicly available. It's just not in the public domain. Think of it like a book or a movie.
Somebody owns it, and provides access to it.
But we're not charging people for access to it for non-commercial uses. Cantrell said that in fact he had come to admire Syngenta. I thought, boy, that's going to really slow things down. At IRRI we had found that as we tried to deal with private companies, they didn' t understand what we were trying to do. We're excited about the opportunity.