[python] Re: patent
- From: "J. R. Sparks" <spider@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:41:06 -0400
If Microsoft did manage to build the Python 2007 the wheels would lock up,
the chain drive would develop bad sectors and the brakes would probably need
patches to fix them.
Seriously, Alan Maurer's Tilting Trike is patented and you see nothing about
it. It is a great idea but because he is trying to find someone to build it
you here nothing. If it were public knowledge we could all have one.
Jim Sparks
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From: python-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:python-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of George Durbridge
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 5:10 PM
To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [python] Re: patent
I wouldn't worry too much. If Microsoft (say) tried to patent the
Python, there is so much evidence on Jurgen's site and elsewhere that
Jurgen (and Esko Meriluoto and others) invented it first that they
couldn't get a patent, or keep or enforce a patent if they got one.
Besides, if Microsoft actually built a Python, it would crash.
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 20:18 +0100, Florent Balestrieri wrote:
> Jurgen, I understand and I share with you this feeling that a community
> can make happen things we couldn't come with alone. And yet I think you
> should anyway get a patent or a way to protect yourself, or the
> community if you wish, from people without sense of justice. The same
> way GPL protect the programmer community without limiting its
creativeness.
> -- Florent
>
> Jürgen Mages a écrit :
> >> First question directed to Jurgen, have you patented your invention?
> >> you really should if you didn't.
> >
> > Florent, I have no interest in going commercial. Also, the python has
> > developed enormously through the input and great ideas from the
> > community. Call it an Open Source Recumbent if you like.
> >
> > Jürgen.
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