Open Source Vs. Patenting

[AB Hammer]

@Thedane

You can have the same effect if you expose it from your patent pending status and have even more protection. And that will still give you royalties.

Big business loves open sourcing for they can manufacture it and not give you a dime. Also don't depend on the Nobel prize, for when is the last time someone received the Nobel science prize that didn't have at least a masters degree. What about those of us who are high school bums? At least that is what they may think. The world of education seams to have double standards and large barriers to break through. Some highly educated don't take kindly being shown up by someone who has never been to collage.

PS you can't beat big business, but you can lean how to work with them. And you can still show it for the do it yourself builders. Most people will purchase not build so it can work for everyone.

[magnetmotorman]

Excuse my too bad English.
You're forgetting something very important. There is LAW.
In countries like Spain or Argentina, the law specifies clearly that it does not protect inventors, but REGISTRANTS. So, there is no way to prevent patenting of our work. Industry "open sourcing" does not exist at all, to the law in almost countries. And if other guy patents your work, forget it (the owner under the law, may and will pursue anyone who tries to produce it). No matters who invented. This is the hard truth.

Greetings...

[ashtweth_nihilisti]

>So, there is no way to prevent patenting of our work

GO and try and get a patent on LINUX. Go watch them laugh at you. The same is for the case of free energy  technology when released in the public domain.
This is LAW also

Ash

[magnetmotorman]

>So, there is no way to prevent patenting of our work

GO and try and get a patent on LINUX. Go watch them laugh at you. The same is for the case of free energy  technology when released in the public domain.
This is LAW also

Ash

You can't do the same in countries like Spain or Argentine. In this last case, the law protects the inventor if has made public his work, for at least one year before. No more... In other words: you have maximum one year for start the process of registration; if you don't started, any other has right over that work, no matter who invented, but is just matter that it is an invention, that is all.
   
On the other hand, about GNU/Linux (my OS, talking about that...), there is a significant legal difference betwen industrial patents and software licenses (and other kinds of authoring). For the rest, again, the law protects registrants and not inventors, in the case of industrial inventions.

Greetings...

[magnetmotorman]

P.S. of my previous message: I mean, you actually can do public your invention, but if passed one year you have not patented, other guy can do it, even if his process was initiated during that year. It means: in this case, the invention IS actually of public domain, AND patentable.

No industrial "open sourcing". At the moment...