"Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition."

-- Australian aviation pioneer, Lawrence Hargrave

Hargrave's design principles were the basis of the Wrights' successful Flyer, and formed the basis of aircraft design until the 1930s. He also invented the principle of the rotary engine which powered most World War I fighters and continued in use into the 1920s. He never patented anything, unlike the litigious Wrights.

Some give, some take. But the givers don't leave a bad taste behind, do they?