Sheesh Mark, is everything about money with you?  There are other things
in life too.

Did you ever notice a very relevant quote on Slim Devices' Community
page?

> He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without
> lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light
> without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to
> another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man,
> and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and
> benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire,
> expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any
> point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our
> physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
> Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society
> may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an
> encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but
> this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of
> the society, without claim or complaint from any body.
> 
> —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac McPherson, 1813

It would be a pretty bleak world if everyone's motivation was always
"what's in it for me?"


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Mark Lanctot
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