Well, I’m sitting in the SAIT library, and I’ve just found this on the Net. Here it goes:

“As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.”

Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of
Pennsylvania for his “Pennsylvania Fireplace”, c. 1744

OK, that’s enough for today, isn’t it?