Wesley Sheldahl wrote:
On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 05:34 PM, Timwi wrote:
Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen wrote:
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Timwi wrote:
We were looking for something we came up with that we could patent, right?
Are we? I think it's an awful idea to have the Wikimedia Foundation patent something.
Notice that patenting something doesn't mean asking for royalties.
True. However, the historical stated purpose of patents is [...] There needs to be some benefit to justify the expense involved.
Sometimes I don't understand why the people who originally posted an idea (Jimbo in this case: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-March/009034.html) remain entirely silent when it is brought up again.