A California-based startup called Savor has figured out a unique way to make a butter alternative that doesn’t involve livestock, plants, or even displacing land. Their butter is produced from synthetic fat made using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and the best part is —- it tastes just like regular butter.
Fucking assholes. Just license it openly if you actually want to help the world
And who will pay their rent, you?
Bill Gates
Right… it’s currently unrealistic in the real world.
Poor billionaire
Your sarcasm completely misses my point. Maybe being positive and open-minded instead would help make Lemmy a better place.
Food and shelter are cheap. they don’t do this to feed and house themselves, they do this for greed.
If they want to profit of it, make the plants and sell the goods. But keep the info open.
Why assume you know their motivation?
Seems likely to me if they offered their research for free they’d get crushed by some sociopath international corporation using it against them.
Foss is literally the antidote to that