Re: Getting Mega Projects Done

From: Mary Shafer (miliff_at_qnet.com)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:40:54 -0800

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:38:22 -0600, Earl Colby Pottinger
<earlcp@idirect.com> wrote:

> david@ualmiles.com (David Summers) :

> > I am fairly certain that at the very least when I retire I will
> > be able to launch this (in 20 years or so, FYI). As you have said,
> > the funding would be available once the project is shown to be
> > workable.
>
> No, I base it on the fact you are too scare to have your idea examined
> openly. This is often a mark of a con-artist, or even more often someone so
> in love with thier self-genius that they are scared to face the truth about
> the facts of thier idea.

However, he's correct about patenting something that has been
disclosed publicly. And he's even more correct about not broadcasting
it to Usenet. I think you're being very unrealistic here.

Mary 

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Mary Shafer   Retired aerospace research engineer
miliff@qnet.com