Re: [Sprawler-general] Re: [Sprawler-devel] Indexing ideas

[Ross D. <sto...@ya...>]

--- Dru Dru <dr...@ya...> wrote:
> > Yes, we could - that's not a bad idea, and I can't
> > think of anything 
> > that would deter us from that.  The source is
> open,
> > and free to use 
> > under the GPL.  My only concern is that I (and
> > others) would post their 
> > "great new ideas" and [insert evil company name
> > here] copies our idea 
> > and patents it, and then possibly we get sued. 
> Does
> > "prior art" protect 
> > us against this?  Do we not worry about it, and
> just
> > move on and hope 
> > for the best?
> > 
> > Eric
> 
> If everyone thought like an Open Source individual,
> then we would not have anything to worry about, but
> we
> have the SCO's of the world that really don't care
> about helping out the Open Source community and just
> care about pleasing their investors and will stop at
> nothing to make their stock go up one more $1 (which
> is how I feel many corporations work). Don't you
> think
> if we come up with some revolutionary ideas and
> start
> posting them to the forum, Google or any of the
> other
> popular search groups will more then likely discover
> them and patent it themselves then tell us we can't
> use it? They already have the money for lawyers so
> it
> probably wouldn't take them long to patent it. We
> might be able to prove that we thought of it first,
> but why risk it. I feel we need to keep this stuff
> private and should seek a patent on it if it's as
> good
> as Eric believes it is. 
> 
> Disclaimer: I'm an internet security professional,
> so
> it's my job to be paranoid and think worst case
> scenario.
> 


i must say i agree.  all patentable ideas should be
sent to that "secret" address, to protect us from
getting sued (worst case).  I'm working on getting us
a patent lawyer,  hopefully one of the 2 will help us out.

=====

 

                       -Ross



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