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[Jeff Davis]

Dear List


On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:08 pm, Richard Stanley wrote:
>   As Einstein put it (and probably several others before him) you cannot
> solve tomorrow's  problems with todays thinking (--or something to that
> effect) .

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of 
thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein




> Instead we have now inherited this notion of protecting an idea as your
> own, defending it in our courts, making sure that if you can just tweak
> your idea a bit you can screw the other guy before he does you...great
> system for one culture working within itself, for a while anyway...

I have come to understand that the inventor and artist is one. A good idea and 
or invention will have a life of it's own, just like a good song, I'm sure 
Jerry Garcia would agree. An invention will manifest it's self through a 
person. So our ideas/inventions are more like our children than our 
possessions. If we hold on to them too tight they will die and bad karma will 
block new ideas. As Garcia said, "the music has to flow".


>   Nowhowever, comes the internet : All of the sudden we have to figure
> out how to keep our turf intact, while it is being exposed to everyone
> and their uncle globally --and we do not have Gates' money or influence
> to protect our ideas...

We have our List and Tom M. to post our articles. This is a way. We do not 
want to protect our ideas, they must survive on their own. Good ideas will 
live on.

Synergy anybody?


> Now lest we fall into a "socialist mess" like all "them commies" did...
> how does a good capitalist adapt to the emerging reality... How to
> participate and get paid for it in an open source environment.

This new way is much better than the old way. Have you ever checked into the 
cost of patents. Our dreams can come to fruition much faster this way.

Lets take a worst case scenario: I come up with an idea/invention but it's 
only half ways there. Someone takes the idea and runs with it and brings it 
to market. Now I can buy it and do not have to do all the work. The work that 
could have taken a life time to complete. We mainly like to invent things 
that we want and a lot of inventors do not end up too well in the end. Not 
that I have any good ideas but I do not want my ideas to die with me!!!!

You have to have faith in the creative force. If you have faith in it and 
follow the path, you will be rewarded.



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A snippet from "Eyes of the World", song by the Grateful Dead.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
The heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin brings,
But the heart has its seasons, its evenins and songs of its own.

There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away,
And there follows his wagon behind him that's loaded with clay.
And the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom, and decay,
And night comes so quiet, its close on the heels of the day.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
The heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin brings,
But the heart has its seasons, its evenins and songs of its own.
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End of snippet
Jeff


-- 
Jeff Davis
Somewhere 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA
http://www.velocity.net/~jeff0124