[Savannah-hackers] Re: Prior Arts (was: Request for shell account.).

[Tommy Dugandzic]

On 17 Sep 2002, Mathieu Roy wrote:

> > > > Is there a place one can post ideas for new software? I would like to 
> > > > post 
> > > > a couple of ideas publicly for the purpose of claiming "prior art" if a 
> > > > company suddenly seeks patents for ideas that are not original.
> > > 
> > > See http://nongnu.org/projects/padb/
> > 
> > Great! However - is that service so newly started that there are no ideas 
> > on file? I'll examine the service further..
> 
> This project has been registered this month, so we can says it justs
> begins :)
> It's not directly a service we provide but a project that we host. 

I'll spread the word to a couple of friends who also wish to fight the 
patent system. If every new and original idea gets posted there first, we 
will never have to bother with patents again. And I don't think the 
society would ever exclude the "prior arts"-clause associated with patent 
applications. We've won! :).

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