Hello Morris and Tim, Hi All, Morris Gray <[email protected]> schrieb am 28.05.2009 20:02 Uhr: > On May 28, 8:30 pm, rtimwest <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Nothing happens in the natural world 24 times in a solar day, > The sun transits 15° of longitude 24 times during this rather natural > occurrence; which, as you rightly say, is a solar day . It is very exciting for me to follow your discussion. And as I was the one who held it here in the list, I have to say 'Thank You' to you and all who helped with the NET and the beat time. It opens a lot of interesting facts to me. But I have one little question to you: Why a timesystem, what is done for everydays use should be copyrighted? Honestly I was shocked reading the following at the NET site [1]: "Everything here is copyright 1999 - 2004 degree NET ltd. All rights are reserved. [...] The '360 degrees of time' concept is the intellectual property, patent pending, of degree NET ltd. If you wish to incorporate New Earth Time within a product for sale or distribution, or otherwise commercialise it, you must have our permission before doing so." I really have no idea how this could work. Could anyone it explain to me, please. Thanks in advance. About BMT I could not find any legal einformation, but as it is linked to Swatch as a producer of watches I'm not really awaiting a free solution. On the other hand it was designed by Nicholas Negroponte, who now maily works @ the OLPC project. Away from all the legal stuff NET to me seems to be the better concept. But it is subjective and who likes BMT may use it. :-) I think they both are neat geek toys and the actual time system will not be changed to any of them. But it's a lot of fun, really. :-) Kind reagards Dirk --
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
