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To: D. Long who wrote (283945)	12/12/2008 9:58:55 AM
From: Oral Roberts	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793962

White House Considering Using Wall Street Rescue Fund to Help Troubled Automakers- AP The White House says it is considering using the Wall Street rescue fund to prevent U.S. automakers from failing. President George W. Bush's press secretary says it would be "irresponsible" to further weaken the economy by letting the Detroit car companies fail. finance.yahoo.com No, what would be irresponsible is putting money into companies that do not have a business plan that will allow them to succeed. Just like BOA giving loans down in Chicago to a company that can't repay them. Giving the big 3 money at this stage you might just as well burn it. The government has gone flippen insane.

To: D. Long who wrote (283945)	12/12/2008 12:37:09 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793962

That's why we have contrived legal vehicles like patents, copyrights, and trademarks to give some semblance of protection to encourage sharing ideas. The Man I took lectures on this subject from, Andrew J Galambos, proposed that a key problem with the patient system is that it did not allow for independent discovery, it all came down to "who gets there first." If you come up with an invention independant of someone else, his beating you to the Patient Office shouldn't stop your owning your version of it. How to prove it? A review system would work. History is full of cases where one inventor was able to preclude another one who was independent of him. We have degenerated today into a real patient mess, with one able to preclude and collect royalties on others my patienting generalizations that have no working invention at their core.