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   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   trag wrote:   
   > On Oct 28, 5:38 pm, Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >> trag sent the following on 10/28/2009 12:26 PM:   
   >   
   >>> But that's society's interest is in   
   >>> making you as productive of new ideas as possible--not making it   
   >>> possible for you to sit on your ass after one good idea.   
   >> "Society's interest" be damned.  Society has no claim on me in this   
   >> regard.  All that society should be allowed to do is to *freely choose*   
   >> whether or not to support my attempts to "sit on my ass after one good   
   >> idea."   
   >   
   > If you don't want to share your idea with society, then don't show it   
   > to anyone.  That is the extent of your natural interest absent the   
   > artificial protections that the government happens to grant you.   
   > Society has no claim to force you to invent nor divulge your ideas.   
   > Once you've shown them to others, those others may copy them, alter   
   > them, adapt them to their hearts content, except that they've nicely   
   > agreed not to.   
      
   I haven't.   
      
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