Re: Purchasing a Hierarchy

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From: Ron Newman
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 00:30

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In article <Cu8p2F.Ey@clarinet.com>, Brad Templeton <brad@clarinet.com> wrote:
>To say one "purchases" the rights to a hierarchy is not quite right.
>(Not yet.)   One gains rights through the act of creation, which one
>might sell down the road.  It's not a matter of taking something from
>anybody, but of creating something new, and owning/controlling it after
>you do.

But unlike you, The Internet Company (internet.com) never actually
created market.* .  They only announced that they were planning to.

Can you sell the right to create something that you never got
around to creating yourself?
-- 
Ron Newman		 		MIT Media Laboratory
rnewman@media.mit.edu

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From: rnewman@media.mit.edu (Ron Newman)
Subject: Re: Purchasing a Hierarchy
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