You wrote;
> If he goes as public as he possibly can, he most likely gets nothing
> out of it. From the above letters, not even the credit.
Yes, but it would be OUT to EVERYONE.
In trying to retain some semblance of equity and credit, I wrote up the
shareware document where full details of a basic proof of principle
version of the device is written up, explained with full construction
plans and it is all copyrighted so that it can be republished anywhere
BUT ONLY IN ITS ENTIRETY...thus vectoring attention to the inventor.
That's about the best thing and would require an ENORMOUS amount of
integrity and trust in the inherent goodness of most people in the
world. I would do it IN A HEARTBEAT, all it takes is enough to prove
the principle....others would come back to the inventor hoping there was
MORE advancement which they could learn about or pay for 'consulting'
about. Of course, it would not take long and others would be scaling it
up and making all kinds of versions, but the deed would be done and
everyone could finally use it in real products.
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