I hit the send button too soon. I just wanted to add
a bit more to the following note. (01)
JB
> That sounds like someone more interested in his contribution
> and legacy, rather than an issue of financial management. (02)
Tesla had many kinds of obsessive-compulsive quirks, and
I suspect that he had some sort of borderline autism or
Asperger's syndrome. (03)
John
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Self Interest Ontology
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:12:48 -0400
From: John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (04)
On 4/8/2012 5:07 PM, John Bottoms wrote:
> As I understood it, Tesla sold his patents to Westinghouse for a
> significant amount of money. Westinghouse later came back to him and
> explained that he didn't have the funds to develop the patents, and
> Tesla returned the money minus what he owed on his lab. (05)
The issues were very complicated, and it's been a while since I
read the details. In any case, a good agent would have made
a better deal that would have guaranteed him a pension. (06)
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