Lots of opportunity for extended terminology quibbling with this one. This article ends up equating "Linux" with 'open source (licenses)', (and "hackers"..?). Concluding that applying the same approach for agriculture, specifically seed production, would be a good thing, (which likely it would be). Perhaps the authors should arrange to lock Mr Torvalds and Mr Stallman in a small room together to appreciate their 'equivalence'.

"... One fateful morning in Minneapolis, Michaels awoke with a Linux-inspired epiphany: What if we did the same thing with our seeds? Just like hackers, he and his colleagues would make their germplasm “free” by attaching a license that kept it in the public domain."