Feel free to do so. What follows is a slightly edited post I sent to another site, discussing this article, with some more info on the Commodore.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; a safe, useful design is not
"intellectual property" to be hoarded and patented and marketed for profit. It
belongs to all who need it."

Those two sentences were the core of this article, a bit of agitprop buried deep
inside, like a hook concealed in a sardine, the warhead of a missile aimed at
the yachting class. I try to put at least one little political pearl in everything I write, well-camouflaged, of course.

It's why I write. I certainly don't do it for the money. This article will earn
me $525 from ******* magazine, of which half will be sent to my very
capable illustrator, Mr *******. I write one article for each issue, six per year.

I really enjoyed the research, though. Commodore Munroe was a delightful man, a
real entrepreneur, a man whose engineering, agricultural and commercial efforts
truly helped his community as well as providing him with a very well-deserved
fortune, reputation, and position of civic leadership. This is what capitalism
should really be all about, not the parasitic blow-dried wimp drones running our
corporations today. I read his biography "The Commodore's Story", by Munroe and
Gilpin, with admiration and respect for this Yankee engineer and businessman,
and how much good came from his work. Not only did he help carve a city out of
the swamp, he also recognized the delicate relationship and interdependence of
his community with the natural environment, and worked tirelessly so that the
two coexisted in harmony. He was a true conservationist, not an
environmentalist dilettante. His appreciation and respect for the Indian
aborigines and the Negro settlers shines through, as well as the role he played
in helping his fellow settlers earn a living in this beautiful but inhospitable
landscape.

It was a painful contrast to what came after, when the railroad came to Florida,
and the Real Estate boom and the steam dredges raped the land for private
profit. He recognized early on the lie of "Progress". He spent the last years of
his life watching the carpetbaggers plunder his beloved Florida, and fighting
them with all the resources at his disposal to mitigate the destruction they
unleashed.

I am certain Munroe would have completely agreed with my remarks at the top of
this post. He built his boats, sold them to his neighbors, or designed them to
their specifications, but he never expressed any bitterness at the way his
competitors copied and adapted his designs. He worked tirelessly to build up
many different industrial and agricultural enterprises in Old Miami, but he
never resented any of his innovations and inventions being copied by his
neighbors. I think I would have liked the guy.

EDIT: This post is a response to TBs comment on my article. Why is Wiki failing to place these properly?