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One other comment about why GPLing something is important for some like me - publishing my 'secrets' are a great way to turn them into "prior art" - you read it

One other comment about why GPLing something is important for some like me - publishing my 'secrets' are a great way to turn them into "prior art" - you read it here first, you can't patent it now - I can protect my ideas from becoming part of someone else's protected IP by publishing it. I spent a few years working on an x86 clone, I had maybe 10 (now expired) patents on how to get around stupidly obvious things that Intel had patented - (or around ways to get around ways to get around In tel that other's had patented) - frankly from a technical POV it was all a lot of BS, including my patents

webmaven 5y ago
> One other comment about why GPLing something is important for some like me - publishing my 'secrets' are a great way to turn them into "prior art" - you read it here first, you can't patent it now - I can protect my ideas from becoming part of someone else's protected IP by publishing it. This is a great strategy! > I spent a few years working on an x86 clone, I had maybe 10 (now expired) patents on how to get around stupidly obvious things that Intel had patented - (or around ways to get around ways to get around In tel that other's had patented) - frankly from a technical POV it was all a lot of BS, including my patents It might be worthwhile to GPL implementations of those expired patents if they are at all likely to be useful. And perhaps then do a bit of procedural generation of various combinations of them for release under the GPL as well (because those would be newly patentable). Prior art FTW!
- indolering 5y ago
  > It might be worthwhile to GPL implementations of those expired patents if they are at all likely to be useful. Probably not. It's always something stupid that can be easily worked around. The real problem is convincing a jury: no one wants to risk hundreds of millions of dollars based on what 12 random people think. nVidia caved to Intel after building a Transmeta style VLIW chip that could run x86 assembly because a decade long patent battle would have been costly and invalidated patents on both sides.

webmaven 5y ago

> One other comment about why GPLing something is important for some like me - publishing my 'secrets' are a great way to turn them into "prior art" - you read it here first, you can't patent it now - I can protect my ideas from becoming part of someone else's protected IP by publishing it. This is a great strategy! > I spent a few years working on an x86 clone, I had maybe 10 (now expired) patents on how to get around stupidly obvious things that Intel had patented - (or around ways to get around ways to get around In tel that other's had patented) - frankly from a technical POV it was all a lot of BS, including my patents It might be worthwhile to GPL implementations of those expired patents if they are at all likely to be useful. And perhaps then do a bit of procedural generation of various combinations of them for release under the GPL as well (because those would be newly patentable). Prior art FTW!

indolering 5y ago
> It might be worthwhile to GPL implementations of those expired patents if they are at all likely to be useful. Probably not. It's always something stupid that can be easily worked around. The real problem is convincing a jury: no one wants to risk hundreds of millions of dollars based on what 12 random people think. nVidia caved to Intel after building a Transmeta style VLIW chip that could run x86 assembly because a decade long patent battle would have been costly and invalidated patents on both sides.