The triple damage is interesting. The founders like Jefferson didn't envision that punitive aspect, I imagine. Instead Thomas J wrote "He who receives an idea f

The triple damage is interesting. The founders like Jefferson didn't envision that punitive aspect, I imagine. Instead Thomas J wrote "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. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe,..." https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.... It's unfortunate that we have to avoid work of others and cannot easily stand on the should shoulders of giants.....