Here's the beauty of this system: you're becoming a local authority on these topics, but your (and probably many other people's) authority is patio11. What does this mean? At least two things:
1) History will probably remember patio11 as a Great Guy
2) People who are really interested, will ask where you got your inspiration, and your reply will most likely be something like "there's this guy called patio11 on the internet...". These will serve to further the impact of patio11s ideas.
Without having any sources or immediate examples, I'm pretty sure this is how things have worked for milleniums. It's quite a robust system that's good both for you, your audience and the "originator".
Naturally, this assumes patio11 can still pay his bills, which I think he can, anything else would be a injustice given his expertise.
I didn't mean to imply that you couldn't - it was meant as a general statement of people in a similar position, though my writing didn't really make that clear.
1) History will probably remember patio11 as a Great Guy
2) People who are really interested, will ask where you got your inspiration, and your reply will most likely be something like "there's this guy called patio11 on the internet...". These will serve to further the impact of patio11s ideas.
Without having any sources or immediate examples, I'm pretty sure this is how things have worked for milleniums. It's quite a robust system that's good both for you, your audience and the "originator".
Naturally, this assumes patio11 can still pay his bills, which I think he can, anything else would be a injustice given his expertise.