Absolutely. I would not care if everyone would be better off, including myself. I would not care even if by accepting damages and letting the other company continue producing the units a million lives would be saved. Our rights and freedoms are more important than our physical bodies.
I want other people's lives to be better too. I've not suffered as much as many people in the world, but I know what poverty is like. Sometimes doing the right thing means that you have to endure hardship. ________________________________ From: Jarold McWilliams <[email protected]> To: noone noone <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Test day in Greece time If everyone was better off, including yourself, you'd still follow your "values"? I completely disagree with this. All I care about is making people's lives better. On Feb 24, 2012, at 12:32 PM, noone noone wrote: When it comes to sticking to my principles, it does not matter what people think of me. > > >I'm the kind of person who goes into church and asks Christians, "who would >Jesus bomb." At that point I'm automatically considered an evil liberal. > > >In this life you can usually take two roads when it comes to most decisions. >The first road is the one that is a compromise of your principles, and >branches out to many different roads. This road is often easier to ride on, >has fewer bumps, and makes a commute easy. The second road is the one where >you refuse to budge one inch on your principles. It is full of bumps, and can >easily get you a flat tire. For example, a woman divorcing her husband after >being cheated on (THE FIRST TIME) despite having ten kids and no way to >financially support them, and her husband apologizing. Divorce is the only >appropriate answer, even if it could mean the kids end up being sent to >orphanages and never seeing each other again. Some may say she should have not >divorced her husband, but I believe her principles are more important than >anything else. > > >If I were Andrea Rossi and if my technology had been copied without permission >(I'm not saying it has) I would let the world consider me the most evil man in >history. I would sleep just fine at night knowing that I did the right thing, >by standing up for not only my rights, and the property rights of all other >inventors. > > >A world without absolute rights is not worth living in. Sadly, the way the >world is going, individuals are having their rights violated more and more >each day. > > > > >________________________________ > From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <[email protected]> >To: vortex-l <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:21 PM >Subject: Re: [Vo]:Test day in Greece time > >noone noone sez: > >> If I invented a billion dollar technology and someone copied >> it without my permission, I would not accept a trillion >> dollars from a lawsuit. >> >> The only thing I would accept is for the other company to be >> forced to re-call all their products. Then I would make money >> by selling the products from my own company. > >Good luck. You give me the impression that you think you can go to >court and win your case in a just few weeks, and then everything will >be honky dorey. Think again. Think years. Many, many years. > >And during all those contentious years of unending litigation that >will make many a lawyer rich, and while you are demanding all those >recalls, and to a complete halt to sales, just think of all the good >PR you will be generating for yourself. People across the planet are >desperate for any kind of cheaper energy. But your sense of demanding >"justice" could end up potentially denying a huge portion of the >population that opportunity - all on personal principle. I'm sure they >will all understand your personal sense of outrage for not getting >even richer off of your invention. But of course you'll be right. You >have that going for you. > >Don't get me wrong. I would be pissed off, too, if someone stole my >invention. But consider the ramifications of how best to get even with >the competition. Try to get even without turning yourself in to the >energy pariah of the century - someone who will be written up in the >history books as having denied millions of desperate individuals >access to cheap energy because he was unhappy over the fact that >someone was making profits off of something that he thought he should >be profiting over himself. > >> If Rossi's technology has been stolen, I hope he refuses any >> credit, money, or other compensation. I would also hope he >> would turn down the nobel prize. I hope his mission in life >> becomes to stop anyone who has used his technology without >> permission. > >Shish! I'm glad I don't think the way you do. > >Regards >Steven Vincent Johnson >www.OrionWorks.com >www.zazzle.com/orionworks > > > >
