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Open Sourcing Innovation
Super_Z writes "Reading an old issue of The Economist, I came over this - whynot.net - a forum for ideas - effectively open sourcing innovation. Doing so, these ideas can hopefully be adapted faster and on a broad basis. Now if I can only get someone to take up and produce my radarguided laser mosquito trap."
I prefer the Half Bakery. All the innovation, half the feasibility!
I'm guessing the the "inspiration" for this project involved a random selection from a hat full of buzzwords. I'm getting fed up with people getting credit for adapting a paradigm such as open source and applying it to something you wouldn't normally associate it with. Just once I'd like to see a project such as this backed by examples of successful output.
Now if I can only get someone to take up and produce my radarguided laser mosquito trap.
That was my idea, it came to me right after the Hamburger Earmuffs!!
The only problem with a radarguided laser mosquito trap is that it will also fry whoever is being bitten by a mosquito at the time,
well thats not always a bad thing!
The Global Ideas Bank has been around for quite a while (in Internet time ;-)
:-)
There are several other, similar sites as well.
Is there a portal to such sites... yet?
1. Goto whynot.com
2. Steal idea
3. ???
4. Profit!
A nice community idea. The site seems /.ed so I can't check... but what prevents someone/some company with low moral standards heading over there, getting ideas and patenting them/slightly changing them and pretending they came out of the R+D department?
Good idea, but I am cautious.
Because the site is down!
.NET is embracing the Beast!
Or...Because using
Vote for global prefs bug
Just today, Australia's ABC had a program -
"In the National Interest" (avail via Audio
on Demand) on Open Source methods being
transplanted from S/W dev't to scientific
research in genetic engr'g, etc.
So... call it all the names you like...
it still seems to be doing some good, eg
giving folks in remote/isolated places of
developed countries or developing countries
opportunities to contribute to progress of
State of the Art.
It apparently works.
Slashdotted before 20 comments.. it must have been overwhelmed by free thought. Crashed by will power, be it.
Doing so, these ideas can hopefully be adapted faster and on a broad basis. Now if I can only get... ...a better server, people would flock by the millions!
The coolest voice ever.
Which is why "intellectual property" is such a bullshit concept.
Anyone can have good ideas, it's actually putting it into practice which is the difficult bit. Intellectual property implies that you can have an idea, patent it and then charge anyone who actually wants to put it into use. You should have to produce a *working* prototype for anything you want a patent on.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
but turning them into reality is brutally hard work.
Honestly: one lunch with some intelligent company and a little wine can produce enough ideas for five years' work. No big deal.
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There's no such thing as radar-guided laser mosquitos silly.
Should Exist has a very strong little commmunity centered on actually carrying out the ideas that they come up with. I seriously suggest checking them out.
But once product or process ideas are published on whynot.com, this means nobody can turn around and patent the broadest form of the idea. Of course, engineers who implement the ideas can patent the specifics of their inventions, but they can't get a monopoly on what's been published.