Miserly.
Yes, miserly is the only way I can describe the period of time I grew up in. If you had a good idea and you didn't guard it with great care then some huckster was going to come along and "rip you off, MAN." So considering the cost of patenting there were a lot of ideas that remained locked away. Right?
Now Lawrence Lessig from that progressive West Coast comes along and creates an arena where people can give stuff away for free....and still get credit?! What is this?? There must be communists involved. Didn't they start doing that in the Old Testament at the Tower of Babel -- you know, start learning each others language and start swapping ideas and accomplishing something...and then did god really come along and get mad?
Well you can see that the razor sharp idea of "saving the world from failed sharing" has cut open the sheath of my trained paranoia and greed. Frankly, I'm a little miffed this idea has taken so long to get here. I'm in my office silently screaming at the top of my lungs, "Where in the hazer-mater have you been the first fifty years of my life?!"
Okayokayokay, so all the wrongs in the world take time and good salt-of-the-earth energy to correct and this appears to be an example of just such an occurrence. This is going to require skillful counseling from Nancy or Cari to fully grasp the potential application of what appears to be a very highminded idea.
Gasp....gasp....onto assignment #9
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