Timwi wrote:

Now some might say, "Ah, but you can copyright ideas!" No, you can't. You can *patent* ideas. I am less sure about whether a language (which can be regarded as an encoding for information) can be patented. Sonja, how about you go patent Toki Pona, and let us know how it went ;-)

Hasn't Microsoft put some type of protection on C#? Haven't you heard of proprietary languages? Not that I agree with such a thing, but we should be careful.

-- mav

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