No machine could have been invented without taking from the human work that came before it. Those people provided the inventor with a task to be done. As they

No machine could have been invented without taking from the human work that came before it. Those people provided the inventor with a task to be done. As they tell inventors, you can't patent an aim, only a method, and only for a time. Indeed, the aim is everything they mean to promote by patents... better, faster, cheaper ways of operating in the world. I thank the artists for their aim. That some don't want what they were aiming at to fall into lesser hands tells me they never did art for the right reasons. The accolades becoming diluted is no tragedy.