[PEN-L:28390] Reformism V Revolutionary Methods

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Eugene Coyle




"Devine, James" wrote:

is there really such a thing as an "original idea"?
JD

Yes, but such can't be revealed on Lists until the patent/ copywrite comes
through.  Original ideas are intellectual property.
Gene

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"Before...the inventors can...establish a right of property in their inventions,
they ought to give up all the knowledge and assistance they have derived from
the knowledge and inventions of others. That is impossible, and the
impossibility shows that their minds and their inventions are, in fact, parts of
the great mental whole of society, and that they have no right of property in
their inventions, except that they can keep to themselves if they please and own
all the material objects in which they may realize their mental conceptions."
[editorial in The Economist magazine 12-28-1850]