Re: Re: Re: (iris) Iris R & I Checklists

>........even some of the oldest names in the history of
>Iris are not without taint.
>
>And human nature hasn't changed!!!
>
>At our society meeting last evening it was related to me that an extremely
>well-known modern day hybridizer had taken  (I guess you could say stolen)
>the introduced work of another extremely well-known hybridizer and renamed
>it as his own. BOTH varieties were the recipient of the top award in their
>class.

>Dave Silverberg


Such action is bizarre and incomprehensible to me.  I can't see the gain for
withholding parentage, nor any gain or satisfaction in claiming someone's
work other than ones own.  Undertaking such action should have a payoff of
some sort - like stealing for money - in order for it to make sense.  So
what or where is the payoff on this?  The obvious one would be recognition,
but it sounds if that was already in hand, so what other motivation would
there be?

Just curious.

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA

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