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Originally Posted by styx Stuff like maps etc should be in the public domain, for all to use. Sure there are costs involved in gathering the data and so on, but surely that can be offset in other ways . . . |
Quite right.
I think the public interest iIS served when these things happen.
Now for the greedy part of me.
Gold was discovered at Sutters Mill near Sacramento, CA in 1849
This had come from the Sierra to the North and East. People made the mad dash to the mountains. Do you suppose that gold had been washing down the river to collect in some of the deep pockets for years and even eons?