Martin Hepp (UIBK) wrote: > What is creativity but a few thousand neurons firing and establishing > a new link? And you want to charge mankind for this tiny, one-time > bio-chemical firework, which was running on a neural network (your > brain) that would not exist without the 30+ years of input provided > from the world that has been surrounding you, for free? Not to say input from *our* free work (such as Semantic Web), I think we all can claim profit from his patents at the end of the day... > Maybe the W3C should implement a rule that anybody using W3C-based > technology (including the WWW as a whole), protocols, or mailing lists > must not patent any invention facilitated by that. So individuals and > enterprises can chose whether (1) they work and invent off-line, in > the dark, and charge others for their creative output, or (2) use the > power of the Web but share their fruits in turn with all fellow humans. WWW GPL 3, that would be nice! I'd love to see that! cheers, --renatoReceived on Saturday, 19 January 2008 11:51:10 UTC
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