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andreas why is this of interest to you +?
your public internet activity consists principally of forwarding others' posts.

nn
 



Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de>

>Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:08:48 +0200 (CEST)
>From: desk@doorsofperception.com
>
>
>PATENTING OPEN SOURCE
>Patent protection for open source software may seem like a contradiction in
>terms, but the Foresight Institute, which campaigns for the free exchange
>of knowledge in software and nanotechnology, has teamed up with IP.com, a
>Silicon Valley start-up, to work on the PriorArt initiative for programmers
>and scientists.  Under the initiative, software developers and
>nanotechnologists are encouraged to undertake 'defensive publishing' -
>which means releasing their innovations into the public domain so others
>cannot later patent what they have invented. Such public disclosure of
>innovation is known in law as 'prior art'.
>http://www.priorart.org/press1.jsp
>
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