The following pages list ideas that I have had that I don't intend to do anything about. As such I want no royalties from them or payments for them, but, I also don't want anyone else making money from them as I am giving them to the World free of charge and they should stay that way. If you like it is a GPL style license on an idea. The primary reason for listing some of them is so that there is a record of prior art meaning that the idea can't be patented.

Don't get me wrong I am mostly in favour of patents but I think we are getting a little carried away with them and patenting a lot of things that are blindingly obvious - which is not really in the spirit of patents. I'm also not sure patents should last as long as they do. When patents were first issued it was difficult to mass produce an item and expensive to ship it to far flung places so quite a long time was needed to recoup the expense incurred in inventing it. Massproduction and shipping costs have dropped greatly so recouping you costs (and making a little extra) is much cheaper now meaning that patent duration should be shorter. After all patents were granted to ensure that it was worth and inventers time to invent not to make him rich.