[Foundation-l] Fwd: An idea of free innovation

[Ting Chen]

Milos Rancic wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> It's a great idea for a wiki, and one that has been suggested before,
>> but I don't think it's something the WMF would run. The WMF is about
>> getting free knowledge to people, it's not intended for exchanging
>> commercial ideas.
>>     
>
> Very important ideas for humanity may be patented, too; so this is not
> just about commercial ideas.
>
> But, I think that this is a part of one wider issue needed to
> complement other Wikimedia projects: We need a place where original
> research is possible.
>
> However, the concept of such idea has to be carefully built and a lot
> of organizational infrastructure is necessary for that. I think that
> WMF is not ready for that, still. But, I think that it will be ready
> in the next couple of years (if everything would be going regularly).
>
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I think we have a place for original research, and this is Wikiversity. 
The idea is good, but there are much problems. For example how can we 
prevent people from just take such an idea and patent it himself. The 
WMF is at the moment (shamefully) not even able to protect copyvio from 
our content. We would have less resource to open another front here.

Ting