Hello Mark, great to see you here.

I did look into your project, but I was not very clear about how it works or if it was updated.

I will get in touch with you and see if we can cooperate.

Thanks.

thanks, see that is one example, it could be nice to have those things registered, not with the same intention as a patent, but it can even be a great way to learn stuff and make better software.

There are many many of them, the difference is that they are not registered, big companies like hp will patent ever the way they fold a paper when the contents are important, open source companies don't. But take for instance bittorrent, this system is great and I remember a few years back when M$ 'invented' a peer-2-peer system to distribute their updates and where claiming it was their own invention, even when they where reminded of bittorrent. Same thing here, I don't know if /. does, but if it was a company like google, they would probably be getting patents on every single algorithms or the way they receive 'scoops' from the readers. There are many many many innovations that come from the open source community beginning with the distributed contribution model in which most applications are developed (there is an article here about how torvalds is responsible for this)

Thanks to everyone for the great input, what I am getting is that we can be fine with just publishing it and having some piece of mind that our innovations (if there are any) will be protected. presidenteloc: our business model will be based in Costa Rica I guess, which is where we are located. I don't think that we can talk about just one legislation, which is part of the problem here, the us may change the rules, but what about the rest of the world? UE I guess will not give much problems, but there should be a better way to protect stuff. kimvette: that was part of the question actually, where would a clerk like this look? Is there a pool of this innovations somewhere? The links provided here are great, but they don't really provide a solution for new innovations, they are working (as far as I was able to see) on current registered innovations in some countries (us mostly), that is actually part of the questions: Do I HAVE to register my inventions? can't I just do something like a GPL license, include it in my code and live goes on. bennomatic: I will start documenting everything, I will try to provide a platform or repository for this cases, and I hope that it becomes useful for others someday.