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To: Frank Schuurmans <frank@bio.vu.nl> Hi Frank, In light of the forthcoming New Scientist article, do you think it would be wise to sort out any protection to our ideas before the article appears? For example you wrote:- > Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 17:05:32 +0100 (GMT+0100) > Subject: Re: Web neurons > > If we go ahead, I propose we develop this as public domain software > (under the Perl artisic license or GNU license). Maybe it is good if > more people get involved in this project. I am concerned that a big company could pick up on the ideas, develop them and then lock us out even though we thought them. I like the way Linux has been protected, i.e. source code must always be provided for etc.