The generosity that Dorothy and Lewis have shared has changed the landscape of New York and will have a lasting impact on our nation's cultural and intellectual life.
Private-equity firms, helped by tax breaks, and venture capitalists both have cash to spare, and there are private markets such as SecondMarket (where $1 billion-worth of shares has changed hands since 2008).
That won't make the stock rocket, but former stock analyst Neil Cybart, whose Above Avalon consultancy focuses on Apple, says the character of the people and institutions owning its shares has changed.
As so many people have been saying for so many years now, it's not that file-sharing (both legal and illegal) has caused people to stop consuming music, but it's that file-sharing has changed the way people consume music.
In summary we can say that the main ethical justification of benefit sharing has changed from justice as equality in a concept of the common heritage of humankind to justice in exchange in the CBD and to four major justifications in the context of international research.
"After 20 minutes the share price stood at 485p with 3.6 million shares having changed hands," Buik added.
Some shares traded more than once, of course, but it may be that more than half the existing shares have changed hands in what could be Thornburg's final days.
