operation.privacyenforcem...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > operation.privacyenforcem...@mailbox.org wrote: > > > On 1/9/84 19:84, Jeremy Hendricks message was saved by the all seeing eye: > > > > Please provide code examples, flow chart, or a white paper. > > > > > > Releasing anything of requested documents is not desired yet. The idea is > > > not patented yet and will make the developers a high value target for a > > > lot > > > of agencies worldwide. > > > > If your project is going to be patented, it can't be part of > > Debian unless you want to give a patent license to everyone in > > the world, which defeats the point of patenting it in the first > > place. > > A patent can protect only a brand or product name.
That's a trademark. Everything you've discussed up until now fits a patent, which is a request for a monopoly on an invention. A trademark is a request for a monopoly on a given name in a specific field of business. Receiving a trademark prevents other people from calling their products by the same or confusingly similar names, not from using your product. > This > > >> I am open minded to release the idea confidentially to a > >> trustworthy developer group of an open source project to let them develop > it > >> and make it available as FLOSS completely for everyone. It needs to be > built > >> before privacy is dead, with or without earning money. It needs to be > >> enforced before we will loose privacy forever. > > would match Debians policies? You say contradictory things. You shift positions. You don't give details as to how this hypothetical thing might work. > I wanted to request a feedback how important this topic seems to be for the > Debian user base, would you use it? Would you prefer it to be open source? > Do you feel unprotected on Debian? Do you think this is neccessary? > Later I want to find potentially interested developers if the Debian > priciples would be applied and released completely FLOSS. > > The release of the solution is more important then profit. Why don't you start a discussion group, forum, mailing list, or similar communications methodology, tell us about that, and then come back when you have a first working draft? -dsr-
