Re: Where to now?

Bruce Bostwick <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:23:53 -0600

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On Nov 19, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Klaus Stock wrote:

>>> We need a black swan.
>>> 
>> Maybe we already have it. The wiki model is working for editing
>> wikipedias (not only _the_ Wikipedia, but many other clones, parodies,
>> porn sites or just silly stuff), It began with IMDB and if they hadn't
>> been such stupid jerks IMDB would have turned itself into what
>> Wikipedia became.
> 
>> Why can't we apply the wiki idea to _engineering_?
> 
> Patents.

Perhaps the patent equivalen of GPL?

Because the answer to "why can't we apply the wiki idea to publishing information?" was "copyrights and licenses" until GPL became a viable solution ..