-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> AFAICR, because someone (NavTeq?) has a patent on the idea. >> > > idea?
Yes. Patents are the right to exclude others from doing something that was your idea. I think you need to read up on how patents work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent > I'm gonna try to put a patent on breathing, wonder if someone else had > the idea before, otherwise I will collect lots of fees in the future > (in the beginning I consider of giving away the idea of breathing for > free, lets say for a 2 years trial period). Unfortunately, in that case, the patent office will throw it out as people (even people who work in patent offices) have heard about breathing before you have submitted the patent. But they hadn't heard of bezier curves at the time the patent we are worried about was made. I think this might be the patent: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0919788.html Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm+lLkACgkQz+aYVHdncI3/5QCgq496Ayt8yPbEPSqe1+Vy8cd5 f70AoLIsM2n9EJ4d+ETgl9vNRlTB9qzL =GJdH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
