Provenance

Does Provenance Matter?

If it doesn’t, then neither does the principle of Intellectual Property

Where do you think inspiration for the ten-years-after-this-site name "META" came from, anon? We all ran around the same fiberhood networks for years, so it's hardly a mystery. Lack of economic or other resources to prove something in court does not make it less true. Lack of a hard trail of other receipts does not make something less true. #IIWIIAWIII: there are things people seem to get away with in life, at the time, but rest assured, anon, there is a Book of Life that no-one can hack, alter, or marr. It's why we're taught, "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." It's not always easy, but it is THE tenet to live by in a world where every day is a new PROOF of "what's happend's happened."

FWIW, which perhaps ain't much, provenance of the term "metavalent" as a stand-alone neologism and the principle of "metavalent stigmergy" each have specific origins and meanings that can be traced back to the mid-to-late 1990s, as indicated by the information from the archived sources. The USPTO has recognized live trademark rights to the compound term 'metavalent stigmergy,' but USPTO was confused by the volume of co-opted references in the field metallurgy in recent years. The usage of 'metavalent bonding' is linguistically appropriate in metallurgy; however, failing to cite the source of the term 'metavalent' as easily referenced in ICANN WHOIS, is not appropriate, professional, or legal, when ICANN's metavalent.info is clearly first registered in 2006 and first archived 2007; followed by migration to .com, .net, .org in 2007, subsequently archived from 2008, forward. Search for 'metavalent stigmergy' at USPTO Trademark Search for details. Not that the origin of ideas (bought or borrowed) matters all that much in the end. Seems like what might matter is, when implemented, whether or not said ideas simultaneously reduced human suffering while incrementing human flourishing. Not a hill worth dying on; but died on it long ago, anyway. That's every young and hard-charging, underprepared soldier's fate. So, take your time, anon. Be better prepared than I was, by reflecting on the essence of Story Itself, scribbled and writ herein.

Footnotes

“Through painstaking Mastery of the Classics I have risen high,
But four years of raging War have well nigh brought all round destitution and ruin.
My shattered country does remind me of willow catkins swept by wind.
In my life I sink or swim like duckweed beaten by rain through the frightful shallows.
We fought our way, they tell us now of the frightful battle never won.
But on the lonely ocean I could but sigh for being captured and all alone down Through the Ages.
Who that ever lived has not met with death?
I wish only to leave my loyal heart shining red in history’s great book.”
— Wen Tianxiang, Southern Song Dynasty