Most breeders are a rip off.

As, I'm sure, many have noticed, most cannabis breeders offer very little information on the strains they sell but 9 times out of 10 they will at least tell you the genetics. That's good to know but when they say blueberry X skunk, that does not always mean it was a blueberry mother pollinated by a male skunk. It usually just means that the strain came from those 'breeds' but has been crossed, back-crossed or re-back-crossed, etc. Which is all fine, but go to any seed bank and you will see many breeders selling the same strains, only they list different lineages for them. I guess this would only concern you if you were looking for the "real deal" but it really bothers me, if different strains are used to create a new hybrid then it should have a new name as well, to limit confusion. For instance, most people agree that the renowned "White Widow" was originally bred by Shanitbaba (Greenhouse seeds, Mr. Nice seeds), including the genetics from a South Indian hybrid and a Brazilian Sativa. White Widow was almost instantly a legendary strain around the world, winning the 1995 Cannabis Cup. Soon after, many breeders released their version of the Widow: in 1996, Nirvana and Dutch Passion seed companies both purchased a pack of White Widow seeds from Shantibaba and then released their own versions within 1 year. These would have the same 'bloodline' as the original White Widow (as long as they didn't breed it with something else), but (assuming White Widow is an f1) these would be lower-quality, F2 seeds. On the other hand, we have breeders like Dinafem (who are GREAT breeders nonetheless) who sell a version of White Widow with the genetics listed as: Haze X Skunk X Northern Lights, I actually really like Dinafem "White Widow" but couldn't they have at least named it something else? Dinafem sells a strain called "Super Silver" which also has listed genetics of: Haze X Skunk X Northern Lights but here they were courteous enough to change the name just a little bit. There are 100's of cases like this, where breeders try to make more money from the glory/work of another breeder.
There's also many breeders who are simply buying packs of seeds form other breeders (as mentioned before) and then breeding them to sell as their own variety. This just gives people the impression that they're getting the same thing when they're really getting a pack of seeds they could of very well bred themselves.

I have been wanting to make a cross of Blueberry Gum and SSSDH (Super Silver Sour Diesel Haze.) Of course a cross isn't considered a strain until it's been tried/tested but I always like to give my crosses a unique name, that's what made me think of rip-off breeders who are out there to make $ off others' work. I know Blue Dream has been quite popular lately and it's a cross of Blueberry and Haze, but it wouldn't be very cool of me to call my cross Blue Dream just because it has a little Blueberry and Haze in it because they will be a completely different line considering my cross would also include Diesel as well as Bubblegum (of course, I'm not a seller either though.) I don't breed seeds for sale or anything so it's not even important what I call my crosses but even if I did, I'd want to start with some good landraces and breed them selectively, back-crossing/inbreeding and such to isolate good traits, then a strain would be worthy of it's own name. I just wish that the majority of the breeders at the seed banks felt the same way. In a perfect world, breeders would breed their own lines, use their own names and worry about quality rather than whatever the most popular name may be at the time.

I'll just call my cross, assuming it'll be good enough to remain as a keeper, Blue Nightmare, then if I were a commercial breeder at least it wouldn't cause any confusion.

I am gettng very much into breeding and would like to add something. Yes I agree there needs to be some kind of standardization so Blue dream in California is the same Blue Dream in New York, but genetics are a funny thing. You can take the exact same Blueberry and Haze parents breed them together and unless they have been stabilized for several generations (which usually reduces "hybrid vigor") you'll get tons of different types all different from eachother from all the different combos of recessive and dominant traits. They will all have the same parents as blue dream but wont nessecarily be the same as Blue Dream. My brother has the same parents, yet he and I look and behave entirely different. Now on the other end if your trying to achieve your own version of the strain it doesnt really matter what the parents are as long as all the right traits end up in the offspring. All the strains we have today come from maybe a dozen or two orginal strains, all the genetic traits to make blue dream, kush, or anything all exist spread out over many many strains and if you selected the same combination of traits that are expressed in Blue dream or kush but used different plants to get to the same set of traits I dont see anything wrong with that. Sure there might be some reccessive traits locked in there that kush doesnt normally have that could show up if you breed your version, but that version itself will be expressing most of the same traits as the kush you were trying to replicate. Its like baking cookies, there are literally a million different ways to make chocolate chip cookies, and some ways are better than others, but if they all fit in with the traits we require chocolate chip cookies to have nobody can say they aren't chocolate chip cookies, even if they didnt follow the original recipe. I like that every company has their own version of things, I just think that instead of just calling it White Widow, I like to keep the breeders name attached to it, and call it "Greenhouse seeds White Widow" just like when you go to the grocery store you can buy Chocolate chips ahoy! by Nabisco or Chips Deluxe by Keebler, they are both essentially the same thing but made by different companies, and we know for sure the are not the same thing as an oreo. Anyways thats just the way I see it, I dont thing breeders are a rip off, I think they are the only reason that there is any standardization of strains these days, I remember back in the day, every time I got "sour diesel" was completely different than the last time, and now days things seem more stable and one guys SD is at least very similar to the next guys. Hows the saying go again? If it walks like a duck, it talks like a duck then its a goddamn duck...