> It may interest you to know that this idea has a patent pending on it: > > http://tinyurl.com/oj6p > > icepick ug. I'm not a big fan of stifling open source development with patents... but anyway, it looks like there are plenty of ways to achieve what Mike was saying without running up against that one. IANAL, and definitely not a US patent attorney, so yadda yadda yadda... but: claim 8 seems to require a server (or at least a cluster of redundant servers) that are trusted and manage the token bank. while thats the easiest way to do it, there are alternatives to avoid double spends. e.g. publishing a token into a DHT or just doing without central banks and building a web of trust with various banks. claim 74 provides a dirt easy way to not be hampered by this patent by just using something other than TCP/IP. there's also lots in that patent that don't match up with freenet, either at the FNP level or at the content distribution level. does the patent prevent other people from doing something that matches all of the claims, or are each of the claims seperable? if the former, freenet could do exactly what Mike was saying without having to change a thing. I'm not saying thats the right way for freenet to go atm, I'm just saying that patent isn't a hindrance for doing so, from what I can see. plus, as nawk mentioned on iip a min ago, <nawk> from a quick glance it looks like most of those claims have prior art in uucp and relay-mail like FIDO and RHIME oh well, back to coding. -jrandom
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