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“Borrow,” of course, really meant “steal,” since there was certainly no intention of giving the inventions back. No, it did not mean "steal." They were not dep
by monochromatic 14y ago
“Borrow,” of course, really meant “steal,” since there was certainly no intention of giving the inventions back.
No, it did not mean "steal." They were not depriving the inventors of their creations, but using the ideas. What would it even mean to give the inventions back?
- sp332 14y agoThomas Jefferson put it this way: If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea.... He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper [candle] at mine, receives light without darkening me. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12....