[Patents] On GPL Ideas and Limited Software Patentability

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

> I also said that I will patent this algorithm, ...

Better do it rather than talk about it.
Although there is a grace period in the USA, it is not advisable
to give people hints about what you might be trying to patent.
The same applies to the other parts of the strategy that you are
envisaging.  Just talking about it makes it appear as if it was
a scheme designed not for action but for stirring debates on the lists.

Also, I don't think that slander on mailing lists constitutes an offense
for which you can sue anyone.  It is not the same as libel, the latter
consisting in false factual statements about persons.

-phm