Re: [compost_tea] Re:pretty close to compost tea!

From: Ted Peterson <ted.peterson_at_tcsn.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:01:12 -0700

Whaaa? Most companies have R&D. The aerospace industry for example has two=
 types of funded programs CRAD and IRAD. Both are funded by gummint money =
and the researchers are free to patent their discoveries and license their =
used. If we left it up the the gummint to administer patent licensing, not=
hing would ever be developed from the research. The "spin-off" technology =
would be non-existant. Drug companies hire lots biochemists who are hoping=
 to find the next major development to save the world from whatever disease=
 or malady.

The drug companies themselves invest millions to find cures and test drugs =
and in these companies are programs that also distribute gummint money from=
 grants. In addition, our gummint commissions works of art and offsets the=
 cost of an architect's work on designing privately owned buildings. Even =
 though the money comes from tax dollars, we don't call it people's art. T=
his happend in the so-called Communist Block to utter failure. An artist d=
eveloping a new style is free to call that style his own even though he got=
 the opportunity to develop that art because of tax dollars.

It is the same with scientific work. Just because the gummint throws out a=
 few sheckles it doesn't mean they own the work any more than the patrons o=
f Mozart's work own or have a right to his symphonies.

Elaine, you are promoting an agenda here that will ultimately only restrict=
 chance taking and development. To me this smacks of everything I know abo=
ut socialist USSR and China.

I find the fact that our gummint actually funds and promotes research and d=
iscovery, however lame-brained some of it may be, to be one of the real cor=
nerstones of US supramacy in the world of commerce and invention. Yes, we =
all love the "garage genius" but these are few and far between. I have met=
 a few. You would hate them. They are totally driven people who care only =
about one thing and that is the thing they are working on. They are protec=
tive to the point of paranoia and with good cause: everyone who sees what t=
hey are doing wants to take it away from them. What you suggest is institu=
tional robbery and intimidation which I find offensive and counter producti=
ve.

I give a lot of stuff away and have been soundly criticized for it. I have=
 patented a lot of stuff too. Some of the patents are dual because they we=
re done when I had a business partner even though he had nothing to do with=
 the work. I got contracts from the city which were from tax dollars to dev=
elop most of what I have done but I would not have done it if all the work,=
 ideas, techniques and designs I came up with became the property of the ci=
ty.

Ted Peterson
EW/SOE
   None of the life enhancing
  medications I take was developed out of the good in researchers
  hearts.

  Regards,
  Tom

  tom_at_livesoil.com
  702-595-7012




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