It's all obviously a matter of personal opinion. But let's take stardawg for instance, lots of people using it and making crosses. Not all have asked JJ if he is cool with it. Like in the instance of gu, JJ asked him not to do the stardawg crosses because in those massive lists of strains he was testing were some crosses JJ was trying to work like the stardawg 91. Gu had Chem 91 x stardawg 8n his list and didn't see that as a problem.
That to me is low, basically riding somebody else's wave (not much of a surfer lol). You wanna f2 it or work the line further in a different direction thaN the breeder cool. But if your just gonna hit it to every clone only in existence there is bound to be overlapping/redundant breeding projects.
Redundancy can be avoided easily just by making sure you aren't stepping on toes or biting style
If these two bit chuckers take dosidos and hit it to every thing they have you are bound to have some instability and so regardless of who bred the strain, dosidos will have a tarnished reputation.
Just my .02 on the whole permission thing, don't take it personal or nothing.
Eta another example,
@genuity doesn't sell his seeds (yet?) But if I had a strain of his like fireballs or honeybee I would ask him to see what's up before I Chuck like no tomorrow. It's not that I would expect him to say no, but maybe he knows something I don't like a strain doesn't play well with cookies or some shit. Same with
@bigworm6969, even though he does sell his. There are many reasons to ask permission and most of them are good ones imo.