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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 02:20:47 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • hamish campbell
   • Professor_Stevens

   @Professor_Stevens @FediThing @hamishcampbell @aral@mastodon.ar.al the ActivityPub spec is patent-free. We had to forego any patent rights when we made the spec. Then, the hundreds of members of W3C, from companies to universities to governments, reviewed it and said they did not have, or would not enforce, patents on the protocol or it's approaches. One nice thing about implementing a standard from an official standards group is that it's as clean as you can get for patents.

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     Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 02:20:48 JST Professor_Stevens

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     • hamish campbell

     @FediThing @hamishcampbell @aral

     This is an inversion of the constitutional American principle that inventors should have exclusive rights to their useful inventions only for limited times. After that, anyone can use those inventions. That's why patents expire. A patent insures an inventor's exclusive rights. But, to get a patent, the inventor has to completely explain how to duplicate the invention, and the patent is a public document.