From: mycroftiv@sphericalharmony.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] John Floren, Im trying to make the world better
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:14:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb7c2a444f7fe6d2500395d9c34390da@sphericalharmony.com> (raw)
John Floren wrote:
> But can you cut it out with the fucking nuclear meltdowns all over
> this list? And fix your email client so it replies to threads
> properly?
No, I am not giving up, and I am going to take this a lot further. In
fact, it is very clear to me what the absolute purpose of my life is.
I believe my father died too early, that he left "unfinished business"
in his life as a Law Professor. He didn't like what had become of
Patent and IP law. He didn't like seeing how it was being abused.
And I guarantee that he would NOT like the situation that his son is
in vis-a-vis IBM.
So I am dedicating my life to this in a public way, and I am going to
dedicate every penny of money from my father's inheritance to fighting
the patent bs that I see in Plan 9. I am going to use my father's
money to try to carry on the work that i believe he wished he would
have done had he still lived - trying to make a difference in changing
the patent system.
If my father was alive and not sick, I think he'd be writing academic
papers attacking the kinds of patent BS engaged in by IBM and others.
He's not, so I will do what I can - and so I intend to start
researching all Plan 9/9P related patents, and then attempting an
individual effort to fight them and have them invalidated in court.
Maybe nobody wants to use ANTS, but I am sure it has plenty of ideas
in it that are about the same as those which get patented by large
corporations. I don't any of this stuff patented. Since I've just
released ANTS it forms a body of prior art (and is based on projects
on sources going back to 2009) so I am going to investigate every
patent I can find in this area, and then see if a crazy guy in a
basementy can actually mount an effective attack on the
Patent-Industrial complex.
I really admire you Mr. Floren, your work on 9p streams is one of the
best papers done on Plan 9 with practical value. Why don't you see
that I am an honest programmer working in an honest way to try to make
the world a better place? Everything I do is trying to help the human
race survive and for human beings to be happy and care for one
another.
I love you, and I wish you to be my friend, John Floren.
Peace and Love,
Ben Kidwell
"mycroftiv"
next reply other threads:[~2013-03-17 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-17 20:14 mycroftiv [this message]
2013-03-17 21:25 ` Nick LaForge
2013-03-17 21:47 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-17 21:58 ` Nick LaForge
2013-03-17 22:01 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-18 0:56 ` Tassilo Philipp
2013-03-18 1:00 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-03-18 8:40 ` vvs009
2013-03-18 8:54 ` vvs009
2013-03-18 12:56 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-18 13:34 ` vvs009
2013-03-18 13:40 ` Calvin Morrison
2013-03-18 13:52 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-18 14:46 ` vvs009
2013-03-18 15:06 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2013-03-18 16:51 ` vvs009
2013-03-18 17:16 ` Matthew Veety
2013-03-18 15:16 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-18 16:59 ` vvs009
2013-03-18 17:48 ` Laurent Malvert
2013-03-18 18:19 ` vvs009
2013-03-18 18:23 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-18 18:31 ` vvs009
2013-03-18 18:35 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-18 18:45 ` vvs009
2013-03-18 18:27 ` Laurent Malvert
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