one issue with that might be that the patents are taken out on variations of the core idea, imho the variations are not new ideas but legally they seem to get away with it Steve On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Henry Linneweh wrote:
Well if it will harm the community, would it be possible to auto copyright rfc's, so that the authors of a concept can prevent someone from sipping their effort off?
Ignorance at the top doesn't mean we can't be like always leading the way......
-Henry
--- "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk> wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Petri Helenius wrote:
We have had running code for this since early this year, so depending on the date they filed, prior art exists well documented. (blueprints obviously predate running code)
everyone has gone patent crazy, every time a new concept is developed some company applies for patent. is this the future or rfcs then?
Steve