I posted my big idea, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920110 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920110, a while a go, in the hope that someone else would e

I posted my big idea, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920110 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920110, a while a go, in the hope that someone else would execute it. I now see that I should have made that explicit by saying "I think this is an important idea, but poor health prevents me moving forward with it, so I'm posting it in the hope that others will pick it up and run with it." It never occurred to me that anyone would be shy of "stealing" an idea off a public forum. The expected value of a raw idea is negative. One invests time and money in execution only to discover that the idea is not viable. One ends up regretting ever having heard of it.