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<DIV>In a message dated 9/9/2011 5:17:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
firesidehearthvashon@hotmail.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Tahoma>Hi
D.D.<BR><BR> I would say then that we are
in agreement that patenting my stove is a good
thing?<BR><BR> As
far as giving away stuff.......right on! I have spent a good a good bit of
time also trying to give good ideas to people all around the globe and asking
nothing in return. Many times the return I get is to hear that my information
was adopted successfully helped people and places I will never even get
to meet. It just sounded from following that particular thread that this
practice is only self serving, I view this practice as a way to ensure that I
will be able to help others.<BR>R<BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>DD As far as patenting or not it is certainly a personal choice, a tool in
a marketing plan. The aspects of greed vs wanting to forge a better society are
up to the creator to judge. In the movie Wall Street the expression "greed is
good" was used. Well that is too a one sided view. Greed is a motivator, that is
good, Greed is also excludes others from the party, that is bad. Patents by
nature enable some limited greed to thrive. Weather that is the good greed, or
the bad type, I guess depends on each situation. </DIV>
<DIV> The problem comes in when Corporations and not
individuals have these patents. Corporations are not people. Corporations have
one motivation and that is to make money for stockholders. I think the best way
truly to make patents fair would be to not allow corporations to own them. I
don't think that will ever happen. There is always the argument that say a drug
company spends a billion dollars on a life saving medicine, they need the patent
to pay for the research. Maybe we need two types of patents, Corporate ones and
individual ones. Hmm. Any ideas? </DIV>
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<DIV> Dan Dimiduk </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>