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“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.”
by kybernetikos 3y ago
“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.”
― Thomas Jefferson
- rusk 3y agoBut why giveth when you can chargeth
- gentleman11 3y agoJefferson wasn’t scrambling to pay his mortgage with those ideas. See also: Amazon and open source, why should Amazon be the only one able to make a profit? If the ideas have no value, then all that matters financially is manufacturing and infrastructure
- account42 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Obsolete_occupations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Obsolete_occupations Should we protect all of those too, at great cost to the rest of society?