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PACIFICA.org - WBAI.org - WJFFradio.org Bill of Rights Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; But the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breath and move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. [Thomas Jefferson, To George Wythe, "Crusade Against Ignorance" in _Thomas Jefferson on Education_, ed. Gordon C. Lee. 1961. New York: Teachers College Press, pp. 99-100.] Streams Online (a free software project) I just wonder where our place is in the overalll scheme of things. "Although perhaps just the empty dream of a farmer who has sought in vain to return to nature and the side of God, I wish to become the sower of the seed. Nothing would give me more joy than to meet others of the same mind." Masanobu Fukuoka Japan (1985)