Linus Sixpack's Journal: Limiting Sold Goods

Lets 'license' a shovel

I wonder if I could license a shovel to users. This shovel would be designed to shovel my fertalizer but not allow the licensee to lift, move, or affect a change in snow or other shovelables. If society would pay for inforcement I'd be willing to take a paper loss on each shovel sold if it supported my fertilizer.

Different regions would be forbidden from shoveling imported fertalizer, which might vary in price, date of release and content. If you bought fertalizer in Holland you'd have to use it with an appropriately branded shovel.

If you kept to the licensing I could encourage you to enjoy your shoveling experience. My fertalizer would be non clumping, light, easy to lift. The shovel would be suitable for display and examination of the fertalizer would be encouraged so long as you did not try to reverse engineer it. You could look closely, see nodules of nitrogen, top soil and those puffy balls but if you tried to mix a similar mixture based on what you saw you'd be breaking the law.