someone recently wrote (not pointing fingers, nor demanding a spirited defense from that person, its a generic comment): > PS: the device has patents pending
btw about patents, I wonder if people who feel the need to do that, would you consider putting those patents into like a linux foundation defensive pool? I imagine a number of other bitcoin companies have patented things, but if you think ahead a little bit, or look at prior ecash history, patents held by individuals or companies can be outright dangerous. We saw this in the past eg the digicash patents after the company went bankrupt were sold by the investor to some random large company that parked it in its huge pile of patents, didnt use it, and prevented anyone else from using it - stalling Chaum dependent payment innovation for perhaps 5 years until the thing expired, and a Chaum patent expiry party was held. Just some food for thought. hmm Yes and this topic now is more than a bit non dev related. Sorry about that. There seems to be no convenient mailing list format for non-dev stuff or I would Cc and set Reply-To for example? (Web forums somewhat suck IMO). Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
