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Posted in patents, peer-to-peer, whole world on Apr 3rd, 2008
Patent Commons: “ir own intellectual property in order to form what the company refers to as a ‘patent commons,’ a modern twist on shared public”
(Via P2P Foundation - Recent changes [en].)
Posted in chaorganization, dutch, holacracy, language, parel, pareltaal, patents, patroon, patroontaal, whole world on Jun 21st, 2007
Omdat we fase 1 van het Aloha-project netjes willen afsluiten en een eventuele toekomstige verdeling van baten helder willen hebben doen we nu alvast een oprechte deelgeving—met een fictieve pot geld—zodat we daarmee later de resultaten uit het verleden billijk kunnen verrekenen.
Ach, wat een mooi pareltje.
Posted in innovation, patents on Jun 20th, 2007
Via Slashdot:
Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating ‘Perfect’ Products?: “Chris M writes “In a recent CNET article, the mobile phone editor writes about what he thinks would make a perfect phone. Unfortunately, as someone in the comments section points out, much of the technology that is used in this concept phone belongs to separate companies. [...]
Posted in innovation, patents, spiritual on Jun 11th, 2007
In The Truth About Piracy Steve Pavlina puts it bluntly:
is intellectual property a tool for scarcity thinking, or is it a tool for contribution?
For me, it’s the latter.
And my biggest fear is that someone takes someone else’s idea, and than monopolizes it. I would claim patents and copyrights in order to avoid just that and [...]