[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> PATENTING OPEN SOURCE

[Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>]

At 02:41 PM 6/22/2001 +0100, you wrote:

>--- begin forwarded text
>
>
>Status:  U
>Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:55:40 +0200
>To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
>From: Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de>
>Subject: <nettime> PATENTING OPEN SOURCE
>Sender: nettime-l-request@bbs.thing.net
>Reply-To: 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

This was discussed at their fall meeting.  Following this path might also 
deter those who would seek to keep these technologies out of the hands of 
independent developers or average citizens.

steve


_______________________________________________
Nettime-bold mailing list
Nettime-bold@nettime.org
http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold