Some history may be in order here; I wont drag you through each and every phase of virtual world development, but I can tell you that googling 'virtual worlds' turns up prior art for almost everything we do (or will do) with opensim, dating back to the late 1970s.
It may not be widely known by either the patent office (do they even research such things anymore?), or the 'get rich quick by grabbing the IP quicker' set, but the prior art is there. Cheers James On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Robert A. Knop Jr. <rk...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:23:40PM -0700, Frank Nichols wrote: > > It's too late for that - and as someone pointed out, intentionally > > breaching a patent qualifies for triple damages. Attempts to "code fast" > > before the patent is issued would be interpreted as exactly that. > > I don't think that's what Diva is talking about. Code fast to get > implementations of as many ideas as possible out *before* somebody > submits a patent for them. To my knowledge, there aren't pending > patents right now that anybody needs to "post-generate prior art" for or > any such. > > Also, the original context of her "code fast" wasn't "get ideas > implemented before people start patenting them", but was advice to > companies who want to get ahead in VWs. Instead of patenting every damn > fool idea you can come up with, actually implement stuff and grab market > share by having implemented it-- that's what she was really saying. > > Ultimately, we need to kill software patents for once and for all. > Alas, chances of that happening soon are slim, so everybody has to be > aware of the existence of them. > > -- > --Rob Knop > E-mail: rk...@pobox.com > Home Page: http://www.pobox.com/~rknop/ > Blog: http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/blog/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFLadGifEn1oMJSrdsRArwqAKDCxWZbFaFIwIekZ5wd0yLzWSHxJACgjUQv > E3H1tkYpIy8TuQbQ5Wy3+PQ= > =v7aw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > -- =================================== http://osgrid.org http://del.icio.us/SPQR http://twitter.com/jstallings2 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/770/a49
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