| Tom_Gray on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:18:48 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> PATENTING OPEN SOURCE |
The surprising thing about this is that this is one of the things that patents are designed to encourage. patents are public documents and the technology contained within them is open to all comers for purposes of research and education. Instead of technical advances remaining secret and hidden form the community, these are made available so that that technical progress and hence human well-being is advanced. The urging below is another example one that shows the benefits of the system of patents on the publication of ideas. many corporations already follow such a practice of publishing descriptions of technology that they have produced that they do not wish to pay the expense of patenting. Andreas Broeckmann <[email protected]> on 06/21/2001 01:55:40 PM Please respond to Andreas Broeckmann <[email protected]> To: [email protected] cc: (bcc: Tom Gray/Kan/Mitel) Subject: <nettime> PATENTING OPEN SOURCE <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]