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[If you put this idea of mine in Mover, can we split revenue]

No.

I can't update Mover anymore anyway.

But even before I sold my soul out for the American Dream, there was a policy in place against this kind of deal. Ideas are a dime a dozen; executing them is where the value really is. Odds are I probably had the same idea, evaluated it and discarded it.

I'm not dismissing your idea. I'm sure that in the right context it's both feasible and great — regardless of what it was. But Mover was a very constrained context and an exercise in balancing usefulness and intuitiveness and, believe me, a veritable ton of ideas ended up on the cutting floor; odds are yours is there too in some form. That even includes ideas that could've been made into entire products of their own, and would've, if my new corporate masters hadn't paid staggering amounts of money to move me to Silicon Valley. Given this surplus of ideas, I simply don't see why I should pay others for theirs, especially when I'm going to have to do most of the work anyway (every spark of inspiration requires literally months of perspiration to become a thing that exists).

Good quotes about it can be found at http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110315/12492813507/felix-dennis-ideas-without-execution-are-nothing.shtml if you want to read more on the topic.

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