On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:06:11 GMT, Alex Chaihorsky wrote:

> "Derek" > wrote in message ...
>> On 23 Nov 2004 07:23:03 -0800, Space Cowboy wrote:
>>
>>> One thing good about a 24 hour Google Usenet rollup the flames are
>>> smoldering embers by the time you see them. Considering who started
>>> this thread it is the pot calling the kettle black. I don't need too
>>> rehash, reguritate, reiterate, ripoff anyone ideas and then hide
>>> behind public domain. If I said it first it belongs to me and not
>>> some pathetic paraphrasing plagiarizer who claims it's just a matter
>>> of time before three monkeys at a typewriter would come up with it
>>> anyway and copyrights don't extend to simians which excludes the genus
>>> Gorilla so Koko can profit from learning sign language. I hope you
>>> get to read your ideas in print someday by some auteur who shares your
>>> ideas of intellectual property.
>>
>> Anyone who shares my ideas of intellectual property wouldn't take my
>> ideas and call them their own. Neither would they try and claim
>> copyright for an idea that is neither new nor unique.
>>
>> --
>> Derek
>>
>
> Jim, Derek -
>
> I have to disagree. Being a holder of about 12 US and international patents
> I can tell you - its a bitch. There are people who do nothing else in their
> lives than take a patent, add horns to it and repatent it or themsleves.
> Shame is not even in their vocabulary. Chinese completely disregard patents
> (they never got royalties on tea, gun-powder, etc - I sympathize with them)
> Israelis do that to prove that if they can wrap Viagra pill in a condom they
> have a useful combination and therefore smarter than both Phyzer and the
> condom inventor.
>
> Oh, well..
>
> Sasha.

Sasha,

I never said people don't do it. I said that anyone who shares my
ideas of intellectual property wouldn't.

--
Derek

Sometimes the end doesn't justify the jeans.