# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1364827107 0
# Node ID c6ac92057526b89edb1388e7d9875157cb9da0ea
# Parent  8a5b6ca537642fbb752aa0d64699cef3651924fa
patent thoughts.

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+#+title: Thoughts on Patents
+#+author: Robert McIntyre
+#+email: rlm@mit.edu
+#+description: 
+#+keywords: 
+#+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
+#+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
+
+
+* Patents generally an inhibitive force.
+
+Patents are usually a negative force, one that allows you to stop
+  other entities from using knowledge to their own advantage.
+
+* Google has created "neutral" patents via a pledge which attaches conditions to its patents.
+  Google has a pledge at
+  http://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/pledge/ that says that for
+  certain specified patents "we pledge not to sue any user,
+  distributor or developer of open-source software on specified
+  patents, unless first attacked."
+
+  This is an interesting statement to me. With this pledge, Google has
+  created "neutral" patents that allow open source software to
+  develop, but do not particurally encourage it to develop.
+
+