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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 > ># 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: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body ># archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net