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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   Frank Frank sent the following on 10/29/2009 11:04 AM:   
   > 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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   Jim Gysin   
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