6 October 2006

Thomas Jefferson on Patents and Freedom of Ideas

Started reading Unbounded Freedom and ran in to a great excerpt from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to Isaac McPherson in 1813 about the nature of ideas. It's not the first time I've run across it, and like my Ben Franklin quote it has seen a lot of use in patent discussions, but it's [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 6 October 2006 at 4:30 am
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