Re: getting out of LaTeX

[Joachim Pense]

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> 
> Joachim Pense wrote:
>> Am 30 Aug 2006 07:17:33 -0700 schrieb Peter T. Daniels:
>>
>> >
>> >  some rather Maoist sentiments (such as
>> > that inventors do their inventing for the good of society rather than
>> > for personal profit),
>> 
>> rubbish.
> 
> Are you denying that LSD expressed that sentiment?

What I think LSD and I expressed was the assumption that patents were
introduced to give society a _bigger_ share of the overall profit of an
invention by protecting the profit of the inventor for some time in
exchange for publication. Not very Maoist, I think.

Joachim