So apparently Galambos thinks he can use someone else’s “property” without permission and at whatever price he makes up.

This would mean that I can use anyone else’s “primary property” (IP) without permission and at the price I make up: $0.

Galambos didn’t realize it but dissecting his example and consistently applying the principles behind it allows for any copying of any pattern without permission and at a price of $0.

His own example destroys IP.

I can’t tell you who’s intellectual property that would be infringing on because their name is their own intellectual property and I cannot use it without paying them money first.

Unfortunately I cannot pay them because I cannot find them. I tried using a phone book, but it is full of people’s names. Those are people’s intellectual property and the phone book is a book of piracy. So I couldn’t actually find the name because doing so meant that I would be reading the name of other people and I can’t live with myself for performing such a terrible act of privacy. I would just be encouraging the phone company to violate more intellectual property by using their services anyways.

But that’s ok.

To prevent stuff like this happening in the future I always make sure to provide licensing terms with any sort of intellectual property.

This post is my intellectual property. You now owe me 15 cents for reading it. You can mail that to me using a personal check or money order. Replying to this post creates a derivative product and costs only 30 cents. The price of reading is included in the price of replying. After 10 pm on next tuesday the price goes up to 33 cents, so hurry now!

But wait: How could a true IP follower use ANY word at all without paying the inventor/creator of that word (and the underlying concept)? Galambos payed a nickel for “liberty”… And that’s just one word!