"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 everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. 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 at 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
This was a great read.
I wish people who reads my two books of the Knights of Dor (my second book is released on the market on Monday, the 18.th. May) will feel good and be inspired.
I am sad I can´t just let all folks read The Knights of Dor for free, yet. I have a publisher to take care of, who believes in my stuff and wants to sell it. So let there be time for that first, and release later. In 1900 the duration of utility patents lasted 17 years, then the inventions were free for all ... the Knights of Dor will come sooner, I think!
Long live the ideas of everyone!
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