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?" -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
