Re: Buddhism and IP

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 07:55:12 MDT


>From: Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com>

>Some things just stick right out when you subscribe in digest
>mode.

>>Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> wrote, in separate threads:

>> As I've argued here before the purpose of life is to help
>> others. Life has meaning when lived according to it's purpose.

>....and elsewhere...

>> I have decided that some of my ideas are not free and unless I
>> can profit from them I see no reason to reveal them.

>Here's a reason: to help others.

"Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, but teach a man
to fish and you have fed him for the rest of his life." ancient
chinese proverb.

"help" and "profit" are not the same...

Brian

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