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I don't know the solution. I don't know how we determine a better solution. I do know that once you publicly share an idea without somehow copyrighting it, peo

I don't know the solution. I don't know how we determine a better solution. I do know that once you publicly share an idea without somehow copyrighting it, people will run with it and the originator can get badly screwed financially by people talented at essentially intellectual theft and lining their own pockets who have an absence of ethics and are too stupid to see that screwing their source is not in their long-term best interest.

soperj 5y ago
And with patents no one who originates an idea gets screwed?
- DoreenMichele 5y ago
  I said no such thing. Please don't put words in my mouth.
  - soperj 5y ago
    I didn't. It was a question.
    - DoreenMichele 5y ago
      The article under discussion covers the fact that patents aren't perfect in that regard. They cover the first person who stakes their claim, which may not actually be the originator.
cwkoss 5y ago
Accept that ideas are low value. If you love the idea, set it free.
- DoreenMichele 5y ago
  My time, knowledge and expertise in developing an idea is not cheap and I need to eat. A local organization has been stealing my ideas and actively shafting me for absolutely no reason other than they are awful people. They nominally do economic development. I was happy to freely provide ideas but I did expect it to be a networking opportunity and a means to build my professional reputation and local contacts and thereby enhance my income. That has not happened. I quit going to meetings because I was tired of their abusive treatment of me and now they cyber stalk me and continue to steal my ideas, give me zero credit, etc so some local cretin and his awful bosses can pretend they are worth the money that the city pays them. I am getting nothing out of this at all. They can't even be bothered to tell people where they get their ideas so my reputation would be enhanced. I continue to be dirt poor. I have done everything in my power to play by the rules as I understand them and the result remains the same both online and off: People think I'm wonderful. They think I have great ideas. They also think I should do everything out of the goodness of my heart instead of for pay and everyone turns a deaf ear to the fact that I am dirt poor, going hungry and desperately need more earned income. I have a real problem here, your platitudes not withstanding.
  - csdvrx 5y ago
    Do like Atlas: shrug, and start working on what you perceive to be important problem within the right environment, a set of people that recognize your value and share their own values with you.
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  - cwkoss 5y ago
    An idea that no one is willing to pay for is effectively worthless. Nobody gets rich from ideas, they get rich from execution. An unexecuted idea which is kept secret has zero impact on the world except inflating the ideators ego. If you can't execute it yourself, put it out into the world for someone else to.
    - 5y ago

soperj 5y ago

And with patents no one who originates an idea gets screwed?

DoreenMichele 5y ago
I said no such thing. Please don't put words in my mouth.
- soperj 5y ago
  I didn't. It was a question.
  - DoreenMichele 5y ago
    The article under discussion covers the fact that patents aren't perfect in that regard. They cover the first person who stakes their claim, which may not actually be the originator.

cwkoss 5y ago

Accept that ideas are low value. If you love the idea, set it free.

DoreenMichele 5y ago
My time, knowledge and expertise in developing an idea is not cheap and I need to eat. A local organization has been stealing my ideas and actively shafting me for absolutely no reason other than they are awful people. They nominally do economic development. I was happy to freely provide ideas but I did expect it to be a networking opportunity and a means to build my professional reputation and local contacts and thereby enhance my income. That has not happened. I quit going to meetings because I was tired of their abusive treatment of me and now they cyber stalk me and continue to steal my ideas, give me zero credit, etc so some local cretin and his awful bosses can pretend they are worth the money that the city pays them. I am getting nothing out of this at all. They can't even be bothered to tell people where they get their ideas so my reputation would be enhanced. I continue to be dirt poor. I have done everything in my power to play by the rules as I understand them and the result remains the same both online and off: People think I'm wonderful. They think I have great ideas. They also think I should do everything out of the goodness of my heart instead of for pay and everyone turns a deaf ear to the fact that I am dirt poor, going hungry and desperately need more earned income. I have a real problem here, your platitudes not withstanding.
- csdvrx 5y ago
  Do like Atlas: shrug, and start working on what you perceive to be important problem within the right environment, a set of people that recognize your value and share their own values with you.
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- cwkoss 5y ago
  An idea that no one is willing to pay for is effectively worthless. Nobody gets rich from ideas, they get rich from execution. An unexecuted idea which is kept secret has zero impact on the world except inflating the ideators ego. If you can't execute it yourself, put it out into the world for someone else to.
  - 5y ago