On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:03:02 -0800 (PST), Gene wrote in message <alpine.lfd.2.00.1011240440240.14...@grumble.deltasoft.com>:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: > > > *VERY* cool stuff, and not "OT" at all!!! Are you going to sell > > kits? ..mylar space blanket type metall foil? Round the edges around the "bath tub" and paint the box to throttle the diffuse air leaks so you can fly non-jet aircraft with due realism. ;o) > Not a chance. We're not even sure if we can give plans away. ..those plans are your works of art. ..drawing plans or writing an How-to-make-your-own does not violate any patents, if it merely teaches the interested hobbyist or student of technology, how to exercise a patent to make his own screen for his own education and entertainment. ..if the "interested hobbyist" sells _many_ of these and either makes a profit or causes a commercial loss to the patent holder or anyone of his licensees, there may be a patent infringement. ..patents are meant to promote science and the arts by granting the innovator a timed monopoly on the commercial exercise of the patent and to anyone he licenses by giving or selling etc a patent license to. > We referenced a few active patents in the mirror itself. ..patent numbers, please? > The next iteration we're going to try to eliminate that. If we > can't, we'll try contacting the grantees to see if they'll grant a > limited, hobbyist use license. ..ok, seeing the videos (they are getting viral ;o)), I got a coupla ideas of my own, so I want to see the patents first, and then talk. ;o) ..beware that posting an idea here on this list, probably renders that idea un-patentable, because posts this list are open to the general public and therefore "published." ..such posting can also be used to "shoot down" a patent application by simply "timestamping it" "as published." > If we don't find a solution, all we can do is point folks at the > source data with the caveat that they've got to figure out the > details themselves. ..those details are in the patent text and images. > I'll know more on this for sure on Saturday when > Wayne & I can spend some time on it. Wayne has developed some > insanely cool tools using Excel that spits out geometry data based on > a few inputs - I'm hoping we can release those at some point. That > would be up to Wayne though. ..these are Wayne's own works under his own copyright. ;o) Neat negotiation card on the patent holder, we can make and share a profit, _together_. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
