Re: Patent or not patent a new idea

[Graeme Sheppard]

alan wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Graeme Sheppard wrote:
>
> > Dear devs,
> >
> > In a moment of serendipity I thought of a concept which may be advantageous
> > if incorporated into the kernel. I was going to offer it to the OIN but
> > they responded they only consider existing patents and I don't have the
> > money to afford one.
>
> How do you know it is a new idea?

The essence of the idea is simple enough that I would have heard of it.
It isn't an arcane programming trick buried deep in code.
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