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   Col (kibcol1049@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 15:14:04 JST Col

   I'd rather have questions that can't be answered, than answers that can't be questioned.

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     Andy Wootton (woo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 15:13:57 JST Andy Wootton

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     • lankohr

     @lankohr @martinlentink @kibcol1049 I learned from Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu Linux that patents were invented, in Italy, to encourage the sharing of ideas after 'idea hording' within families caused several chemical processes to be lost.

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     lankohr (lankohr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 15:13:58 JST lankohr

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     • martin lentink 🇪🇺 🇺🇦📎

     @martinlentink @kibcol1049 I'm generally sceptic about "intellectual property". Maybe every knowledge is just part of the "collective unconscious of humanity". Like Huxley's theory of "omniscience in every human".

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     martin lentink 🇪🇺 🇺🇦📎 (martinlentink@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 15:13:59 JST martin lentink 🇪🇺 🇺🇦📎

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     • lankohr

     @kibcol1049 @lankohr It's yours now, you own it.

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     Col (kibcol1049@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 15:14:01 JST Col

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     • lankohr

     @lankohr Most clever things are repeated like good jokes. It's often impossible to know who made them famous, let alone who actually said them first. If there's a general acceptance of a credit I will give it.

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     lankohr (lankohr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 15:14:02 JST lankohr

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     @kibcol1049 It's often attributed to Feynman, but also in some religious texts. And even then there was almost guarantied a drunken Greek guy thinking/saying it a few thousand years ago.

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     lankohr (lankohr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 15:14:03 JST lankohr

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     @kibcol1049 That's very spiritual. Do you follow the dao or another path? Seem's almost like close buddhahood.

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     Col (kibcol1049@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 15:14:03 JST Col

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     • lankohr

     @lankohr Not especially, I wondered where I'd heard that. 🤔