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Open Source Project: IPForge.net and PatentForge.net
Using the great name of sourceforge, the hosting provider of thousands of open source software developments, I have made purchases of both ipforge.org/net and patentforge.org/net
I intend to create communities similar to those existing in the Open Source software world but for utility and design, form and function.
The reasons for doing this are many, but can be summed up in a short statement concerning the use of patents. The patent is meant to provide incentive to the inventor to produce new and ingenuitive ideas, but what it has done within the last century is to mostly prevent it by enabling good ideas to be gobbled up by those willing to purchase the enforced intellectual rights to the idea. Instead of providing incentive to create, patent law has only created incentive to build walls and fences around new concepts, to prevent the use of new technologies.
I have confidence that the markets are ready for a dynamic shift into a new paradigm of intellectual property and the growth and development of new ideas. Individuals today are stifled by the high cost of 'protecting' their intellectual property. When patenting something and funding the 10 to 20 thousand dollar cost of obtaining a utility patent on a strong new idea, it will simply be bought by a large corporation that has an interest in the market. Any future development in that area is then fenced-in by that company by their writing more general claims into their own patents.
For these reasons I have purchased two new domains and intend to foster a community of thinkers and inventors, from the birth of idea and formation of new concepts (da Vinci Concept) through the creation of intellectual property, design, method, and process (ipforge.net) and finally protecting open sourced intellectual property from being destroyed by the formulation of patents that prevent open development (patentforge.net).
I will be working on the technology back-end for the websites in the coming weeks and preparing for a first release of the site.
I intend to use the software backend for 'SourceForge.net' or something similar, providing access to resources for community and project development, even internet hosting.
The site will utilize an application process similar to that which SourceForge uses for new accounts. It may take between 12 and 18 months for the new sites to take off as the first few projects trickle in and things pick up pace. I expect to require a more robust hosting solution much farther beyond my current solution before a full-fledged intellectual property hosting organization can be fielded.
Any help or thoughts are appreciated.
Please use this discussion thread for discussion regarding this idea and its implementation.
--sunny Sat Nov 27 18:46:09 2004
Related projects:
These all have a potential to be collaborators and contributors to this project.
IP and Patent Law in regards for Open Source and Creative Commons licensing:
http://www.grokline.net/
http://www.groklaw.net/
http://creativecommons.org/
Elecronic Frontiers Foundation
Economic and Game Theory - Intellectual Property Page
Cooking pot markets: an economic model for the trade in free goods and services on the Internet
Open Intellectual Property
Open Source Biotechnology Project
Open-Source Drug Discovery Proposed for Neglected Diseases
Industry Analysis Paper on Open Computer Hardware, Troy Benjegerdes
Open Design Circuits: Ultra Low Cost Open Chip Development
Think Cycle - Open Collaborative Design
Open Collector
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Hardware/Open_Source/
OpenCores.org : free open source IP cores and chip design
Free Model Foundry (electronic models)
Open Bluetooth Core
Stark Draper Open Source Rocketry Award
PSUBS OSS (Open Source Submarine) Project
The above references show that there are already emerging groups targetting specific fields that have a need for open intellectual property.
Decreasing the cost of open design using Open Source software
GPL Electronic Design Automation (gEDA)
QCAD - Open Source 2D CAD
Open Cascade - Modelling and Simulation
Power CAD - Open Source 3D CAD
CAD tools for VLSI circuit design
ArgoUML
Intellectual Property Search Tools
Dialog Select
USPTO
Open Source Community and Information
Open Source Developers Network
Open Source: The Unauthorized White Papers
OpenSource.org : Open Source Definition
Proposed Tools for the backend implementation of this project
http://gforge.org/
Articles on Open Sourced Hardware and Technology
http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20020524S0078
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-254816.html?legacy=cnet
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61631,00.html
[ Edited Sun Nov 28 2004, 10:19PM ]
--sunny Sun Nov 28 22:09:52 2004
