On 09/27/2013 11:33 PM, Paul Elliott wrote:
> I have some ideas in my head that I am thinking about patenting, but I only
> want to torture the proprietary software people with it.
You can be a pain to proprietary software people by time-stamping the
normal open development process:
http://eupat.ffii.org/stidi/gacri/
Lots cheaper too. Time-stamping proprietary development also helps (see
link above).
For historical reference, some people have considered not torturing
anybody at all to be OK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Technical_Disclosure_Bulletin
Best regards.
//Erik