permaculture

[Alia Tsang <alia@dietrick.org>]

This isn't even a matter of copyrighting a unique idea, it's branding. Of
course, you get great mindshare if you claim a phrase people already
know.... (Too bad the majority of the people that probably use the phrases
have never heard of them.)

Gotta love marketing.

Alia Tsang

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Steven & Margaret Eisenhauer <
eisenhauerdesign@earthlink.net> wrote:

> This is a real problem.  When it comes to inventing something you must
> patent it or someone else will and then they can and will turn around and
> prevent you from producing it.  Open source is a great concept but when
> swimming with the sharks one must always be aware or you could end up on
> their plate.  This reminds me of Monsanto's current strategy of polluting
> the gene pool in order to claim ownership to everything.
>
> Steven Eisenhauer
>
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