John Floren wrote: > But can you cut it out with the fucking nuclear meltdowns all over > this list? And fix your email client so it replies to threads > properly?
No, I am not giving up, and I am going to take this a lot further. In fact, it is very clear to me what the absolute purpose of my life is. I believe my father died too early, that he left "unfinished business" in his life as a Law Professor. He didn't like what had become of Patent and IP law. He didn't like seeing how it was being abused. And I guarantee that he would NOT like the situation that his son is in vis-a-vis IBM. So I am dedicating my life to this in a public way, and I am going to dedicate every penny of money from my father's inheritance to fighting the patent bs that I see in Plan 9. I am going to use my father's money to try to carry on the work that i believe he wished he would have done had he still lived - trying to make a difference in changing the patent system. If my father was alive and not sick, I think he'd be writing academic papers attacking the kinds of patent BS engaged in by IBM and others. He's not, so I will do what I can - and so I intend to start researching all Plan 9/9P related patents, and then attempting an individual effort to fight them and have them invalidated in court. Maybe nobody wants to use ANTS, but I am sure it has plenty of ideas in it that are about the same as those which get patented by large corporations. I don't any of this stuff patented. Since I've just released ANTS it forms a body of prior art (and is based on projects on sources going back to 2009) so I am going to investigate every patent I can find in this area, and then see if a crazy guy in a basementy can actually mount an effective attack on the Patent-Industrial complex. I really admire you Mr. Floren, your work on 9p streams is one of the best papers done on Plan 9 with practical value. Why don't you see that I am an honest programmer working in an honest way to try to make the world a better place? Everything I do is trying to help the human race survive and for human beings to be happy and care for one another. I love you, and I wish you to be my friend, John Floren. Peace and Love, Ben Kidwell "mycroftiv"
