Building your own thing is every persons right, and has been since the beginning of time. We think about things differently than most other groups. We think half the fun is sharing what we learn. We don't care if other people use our ideas, and we are sure not shy about using others. If you are here then we are happy you have decided to choose us. We won't tell you what way is right or wrong, we will just tell you what we have learned.
Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. 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, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it… . That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson (Aug. 13, 1813)
We value open discussion. We ask that you keep it polite and respectful. We don't have time to deal with children, most of us have kids in real life. Please keep the drama out of here, that is about our only rule. We hope that you enjoy what you find here, and if you find something missing please let us know!
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