[Linux-aus] FOSS patent infringements

[Janet Hawtin]

On 5/20/07, Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:06:42PM +1000, Peter Miller wrote:
> > If the system worked, The Patent Office would publish huge multi-volume
> > sets of books called "How Things Work" which would be full of lucid
> > prose and be amazingly gobsmackingly useful.  Experimenters would first
> > consult "How Things Work" to avoid reinventing the wheel.  Inventors
> > applying for patents would submit said lucid prose.
>
> Heh, sounds kinda like wikipedia...

That would be because it uses transparent accountability instead of
gatekeeping. =)
something JW suggested we should think about for the education sector too.

Janet