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Filing a patent "for fun" and then posting about with details about the patent contents on a technical forum should be outlawed.
by ninepoints 4y ago
Filing a patent "for fun" and then posting about with details about the patent contents on a technical forum should be outlawed.
- WalterBright 4y agoI don't have any financial interest in it, if that's what bothers you.
- ninepoints 4y agoMany of us, myself included, do not want to read about patent encumbered IP in general. It doesn't matter who owns the patent, or how you purport to wield it on this particular day, in this particular year. You are essentially doing the equivalent of traversing the internet, planting mines as you go.
- WalterBright 4y agoI clearly identified it up front as a patent, and if you don't want to read about it, just skip it.
- ninepoints 4y agoThat's like saying "movie spoiler ahead" and then writing it out in cleartext. C'mon man...