Mastodawn

This is very aggressively (perhaps too aggressively) stated, but he's absolutely right. People are all worried their ideas are gonna be "stolen", and my friends, I can assure you that won't be the problem.

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J. Peterson Jun 24

@codinghorror Likewise: Publishing your ideas in any public forum -prevents- everybody else from patenting it.

(You still have one year from the date of publication to file a patent (in the US) if that's your jam).

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Andrew Zonenberg Jun 25

@isonno @codinghorror I've referred to this as the "scorched earth IP policy".

Publish early, publish often, become prior art against everyone. Even yourself.

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Andrew Zonenberg

@isonno @codinghorror (I did this with some research code in school to minimize the chances of the school attempting to patent anything from out under me)