perfessor multigeek's Journal: "Patent it"

Richie2000 made the reasonable comment that I should patent one of my ideas recently. Well, folks, in case I never got around to it before (I coulda sworn I did but I'm too lazy at the moment to wade through about three hundred pages of JEs), anything I disclose here is copylefted for non-commercial use. You like, go ahead and use it. What would I, in an ideal case, like in compensation? Well, some pictures of what ya built would be nice.

I mean, don't get me wrong, if somebody uses an idea I post here and feels like sending me some bucks, I'ld be more then happy to get the cash. But don't let that stop you from using something. I'ld far rather have this stuff in use then sitting around mouldering in my notebooks. I spent twenty-five years trying the conventional approach to IP and all that it left me was broke, older, and tired.

So unless you're the sort of entity that has shareholder meetings and annual reports, go ahead and use anything here. That means the mechanical/civil stuff. It means the database stuff, it means the rooftop planting stuff on my site, it means anything and everything.

I really would appreciate photos and other stuff that tells how things went and what you think of it (possible improvements would, of course, be posted here). But again, if that's too much of a pain, just go ahead and do it. And hey, if you *are* a company looking to licence, I'll licence the rights cheap. Just promise you'll sell at a decent price and be honest with your bookkeeping.

Happy days,

Rustin