[geeks] Distributed folding patent

Frank Van Damme frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Mon Feb 17 16:11:56 CST 2003


On Monday 17 February 2003 23:03, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> --- Caleb Shay <caleb at webninja.com> wrote:
> > The Distributed Folding folks are all happy that they got their
> > patent on their folding algorithm today.  Disgusting.  I thought
> > this was for the pure advancement of scientific knowledge.
> > Anyways, I left a rant on their message board and I'm pulling
> > all my machines off it.
>
> A Patent by itself only signifies that you have invented/documented a
> new and novel approach to a problem. What they do with the patent is,
> of course, another matter.

Dream on.

> Have they said what their intentions are?

Make money? Crosslicense like every other big patent holder?

rm -Rf /home/yalu/distribfolding



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