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[Omnibus]

Publication in an archival journal or anywhere at all is desirable but NOT NECESSARY.  What is necessary is to get this to our academia.  There - at least - is a forum that can progress the art without any thoughts for financial rewards.  Not that they're precluded.  It's just the simple truth that the progress of knowledge is still their overriding interests.

Rosemary

No, you're wrong. Publishing a discovery in an archival journal is a must if you really care about the scientific priority.

[Rosemary Ainslie]

They cannot claim this is their discovery if you have published it in an archival journal. I think if you've done that you shouldn't worry at all with regard to who has the priority to that discovery (the experiment, not whatever you think is a theory that led to it).

They cannot claim it if there is ANY prior publication anywhere at all - here on these forums - in technical journals - in blogspots - ANYWHERE.  Provided always that it is recognised as A PUBLIC DOMAIN. 

YET they ARE CLAIMING that it's their discovery.  Go figger.

Rosemary

[Rosemary Ainslie]

No, you're wrong. Publishing a discovery in an archival journal is a must if you really care about the scientific priority.

I DO NOT CARE ABOUT SCIENTIFIC PRIORITY.  I SIMPLY DO NOT CARE.  I have a thesis that needs refinement.  I have a technology that needs development.  I AM NOT INTO ANYTHING ELSE.  I do NOT need public recognition.  I NEED PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR REQUIRED DEVELOPMENTS. AND I NEED TO ENSURE THAT THESE DEVELOPMENTS REMAIN IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

[Omnibus]

They cannot claim it if there is ANY prior publication anywhere at all - here on these forums - in technical journals - in blogspots - ANYWHERE.  Provided always that it is recognised as A PUBLIC DOMAIN. 

YET they ARE CLAIMING that it's their discovery.  Go figger.

Rosemary

Like I said, you shouldn't worry at all then. However, you should be careful because blogspots, forums and other net instruments are ephemeral and are hardly archival in most cases. No wonder there are still archival journals, although many of them with a net presence.

[Omnibus]

I DO NOT CARE ABOUT SCIENTIFIC PRIORITY.  I SIMPLY DO NOT CARE.  I have a thesis that needs refinement.  I have a technology that needs development.  I AM NOT INTO ANYTHING ELSE.  I do NOT need public recognition.  I NEED PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR REQUIRED DEVELOPMENTS. AND I NEED TO ENSURE THAT THESE DEVELOPMENTS REMAIN IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

The problem is, you don't have the technology you claim you have (if that's a technology at all). You would have it if you had a patent. You do not have a patent so you don't own that kind of property. It is made public and anybody can do anything with it without you being able to prevent it in any way. That's the confusion I am talking about in several posts already.