> I have known a lot of incredibly creative people who have never shared
> their ideas with anyone because they feared others would steal their
> ideas and not give credit where it's due. Maybe you think they're crazy
>
> for thinking that way, but evidence abounds that that sort of thing
> happens all the time. It's very sad that so many brilliant ideas have
> never been shared with the world. What do the "information wants to be
> free" people have to say to those people who know they're going to be
> ripped off if they open their mouths?
Newton had a lot of rather unique ideas he never published.. But in his
time no one did own information. ;)
And to those people who are so terribly afraid of being "ripped-off" I can
only say that every poet, every programmer, every human being is a theif
in that sense. If they are afraid that other people will take their ideas
and make money of it - just put it under the GPL? ;)
Could you be a bit more elaborative when it comes to the term "ripped
off"?
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