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I disagree 100%. This is amazingly innovative. We have seen letter switching examples and how the brain will try to fill in the gaps. This is superbly unique

I disagree 100%. This is amazingly innovative. We have seen letter switching examples and how the brain will try to fill in the gaps. This is superbly unique and justifiably a patent and trademark. The demo works. The rules may be simple. But as the old boat repairman story says, sometimes you need to know where to hit the hammer. Please, please don't use this for evil.

renato_casutt 5y ago
Thank you very much for your answer. No, I will definitely use it for good. For sure. Best regards from the Alps Renato
- bogwog 5y ago
  The only way to use a patent “for good” is to prevent someone else from patenting it and exploiting it. If you’re serious, then release a copy-left license for the patent (but not necessarily your implementation/product/sdk) Otherwise, just add your commercial licensing terms to your website already so people aren’t misled into thinking they’ll be able to do anything with this idea unless they pay you.
  - behnamoh 5y ago
    Agreed. I don’t think this deserves to be shown to HN given that most people here are strong supporters of free and open source
- DiggyJohnson 5y ago
  I agree with the criticism and this response! Glad to see you engaging in here. Go go go!
kizer 5y ago
Plus without a patent it would be very easy to capitalize on this without compensating the guy for all the research and tuning his put into it. I think patents are ideal for new ideas that are super easy to steal/copy, right? Sure Academics working at the bleeding edge should patent for example but they're likely to have a little advantage by being the expert and actually knowing how to do the thing. But in this case the result may look simple but took ingenuity and time to produce just the same.
irutiw22 5y ago
Just FYI, as I detailed in my top-level comment: While it is a really nice tool, it is already a few years old, so I'm not sure if it qualifies as innovative. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20190119032121/http://br.craftworks.at/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190119032121/http://br.craftwo... More info detailed at my top-level comment.

renato_casutt 5y ago

Thank you very much for your answer. No, I will definitely use it for good. For sure. Best regards from the Alps Renato

bogwog 5y ago
The only way to use a patent “for good” is to prevent someone else from patenting it and exploiting it. If you’re serious, then release a copy-left license for the patent (but not necessarily your implementation/product/sdk) Otherwise, just add your commercial licensing terms to your website already so people aren’t misled into thinking they’ll be able to do anything with this idea unless they pay you.
- behnamoh 5y ago
  Agreed. I don’t think this deserves to be shown to HN given that most people here are strong supporters of free and open source
DiggyJohnson 5y ago
I agree with the criticism and this response! Glad to see you engaging in here. Go go go!

kizer 5y ago

Plus without a patent it would be very easy to capitalize on this without compensating the guy for all the research and tuning his put into it. I think patents are ideal for new ideas that are super easy to steal/copy, right? Sure Academics working at the bleeding edge should patent for example but they're likely to have a little advantage by being the expert and actually knowing how to do the thing. But in this case the result may look simple but took ingenuity and time to produce just the same.

irutiw22 5y ago

Just FYI, as I detailed in my top-level comment: While it is a really nice tool, it is already a few years old, so I'm not sure if it qualifies as innovative. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20190119032121/http://br.craftworks.at/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190119032121/http://br.craftwo... More info detailed at my top-level comment.