Re: Fear of Life (was Microsoft, Automation)

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sun May 03 1998 - 21:07:07 MDT


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Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin wrote:
>Only rich people are allowed to bring their inventions to market.
>
>A poor person cannot bring his own invention to market, because he
>doesn't have the money -- and he also can't pay up if his invention
>doesn't work out.

If inventing is expensive, then we should expect this. It's how the market
rations goods.

>Besides, oftentimes even a basic description of an invention is
>sufficient to reinvent it. For example, try to describe a
>Frisbee(tm) well enough to garner interest, but *not* well enough
>that a toy manufacturer could reinvent it himself just from your
>description.

"It's a disk that flies." "How?" "I'm not telling."

I've got finals this week... I'll get back to you in a few days on your
other post.

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