"Unfortunately, there's a serious superbeing shortage, so patch author J. Random Hacker is left with two choices:
Ban all entrepreneurial software development then.
And watch your socialist hell collapse into massive poverty.
Superman lives but Multiple Sclerosis is a form of Kryptonite.
I guess you fail to understand that I wrote CoolPage all by myself. And I wrote most of WordUp by myself. Both were notable commercial successes.
sit on the patch, or throw it into the pool for free.
I am not sitting on a patch. Even if I told you the design, it can't be implemented in Monero. You must start over again. There is no choice.
So who will build out that entirely new code base?
You need either a team or a Superman or preferably both.
Do you think that if I released those ideas without code that they will spontaneously code themselves
The first choice gains nothing.
I am not sitting on anything. There was another choice. Do not sit on it but also do not throw into a socialist pool where either nothing with happen (likely because so very few people are capable of implementing a new code base apparently), or it will have 100 copycat implementations destroying the chance of any one of them having the momentum to really change anything. Monero could end up being a prime example of that effect and it was even already implemented by Cryptonote.
The second choice may gain nothing, or it may encourage reciprocal giving from others that will address some of J. Random's problems in the future. The second choice, apparently altruistic, is actually optimally selfish in a game-theoretic sense."
Yeah if it is patch. But there is no way Eric would be stupid enough to write that about something which is not a patch. Altruist giving isn't going to occur by releasing some unimplemented designs.
He would argue release often into the public domain of open source, while also driving the development forward. And he would be correct, except that I also understand we are making a cryptocoin and it needs some exclusivity pre-launch else it won't be able to gain any momentum at launch. After launch, then of course all code improvements should be released immediately into the public domain open source.
Do you read what you write (or quote)?
Yes and I also understand what I read.
If you have this great thing and you don't release it, you're a dick and you deserve to languish in the "what if?" Hell of your own making. But if you do release it, you may make some money and you may make the world a better place. I'm sure if you don't get rich, you can at least drop your own name and maybe get a blowjob out of it. 
I want to release it. Why do you think I was bitching about not being able to find anyone to hire or collaborate with.
But I won't throw a non-patch into a pool which doesn't exist because I am not stupid. I understand what can and can't be effective.
As far as the political issue goes, you run into the problem of people living in fear from their and other governments--governments term this in "be afraid of us" or "be afraid of them." I don't think that github translates when a real gun held by a real man can take away your real life--now, sometime in the future when our minds are distributed over networks, then you might have a case for this non-political answer to politics. But for now, 'merica and her allies can throw-up an image of the Taliban and get people to give up freedoms they wouldn't have ever dreamt of before 9/11--of course posting scare articles and rants about Big-Brother government is using the same political scare mechanism--just sayin'.
I am not trying to save the morons from themselves. I am hoping to accelerate their self-destruction so we can get on with cleansed world. A very good anonymous internet and money in a exponentially expanding Knowledge Age could help accelerate the collapse while also providing refuge for those who are not morons.
Honestly, how can anyone be sure that works for coding works in the real world as well, if at all? The coding world is chock-full of Idealist and Rationals and the real world (the far greater percentage of the population) is filled with Guardians and Artisans--a small theoretically minded percent of the population versus an overwhelmingly real-world minded set of the population, who wins?
Hitler was an Artisan.
Guardians
Their idea of guardian is moar debt-funded, welfare spending. They are self-destructors, walking hand grenades.Especially when the greater percentage is holding most of the guns?
I believe most of the guns are held by those few (3 million perhaps) who believe in individual sovereignty and small government.
Perhaps they are outnumbered in firepower by the USG.
I think if you make a better system that works easy for everyone, you'll be closer to the world you want to live in, but barring being better, stronger, faster, more adaptable than the controlled systems you are competing against, you will need to change the political will of the people. I think you are being myopic when you assert the knowledge age is pervasive enough to compete another way.
You don't need to change the will of all the people, just the people who matter economically.
I figure those people who don't want to prioritize working with me already fail that test., lol