The Conversation website has been publishing a series of blogs by different authors about "Ideas and Ownership", number 6 in the series is called "Open source – ditching patents and copyright for the greater good" and is written by Anton Hughes,a PhD candidate from the Uni of Tasmania. https://theconversation.edu.au/open-source-ditching-patents-and-copyright-fo... He previously wrote an article for them entitled "Do patents create software innovation? Computer says no". https://theconversation.edu.au/do-patents-create-software-innovation-compute... Nice to see all sides being covered by The Conversation. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP