Comments for The Eco-Patent Commons: Sharing Technology for the Greater Good at http://www.ecogeek.org , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.ecogeek.org Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:58:13 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.ecogeek.org/ecogeeks/1309#comment-9234 Sharing intellectual property, such as patents, is a great idea! It will speed up the roll out of similar and related developments WITHIN the patent protection time frame. Once a patent has expired it is available for use by everyone. Time is critical in responding to current problems and healing past damages. This is a positive step. Even though the selection of patents is within the control of the donor companies, it should be encouraged. - Ben Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:02:53 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/ecogeeks/1309#comment-9222 global community = open source. awesome news! - kd Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:16:49 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/ecogeeks/1309#comment-9191 The company I work for ordered a large quantity of Dell computers. You would not believe the amount of stire foam and wasted plastic Dell ships out. Of course, some of the plastic was recycled, but Dell has some strange bag that's a stire foam plastic hybrid. It was really disgusting, but at the same time I love the new puters. So hopefully Dell will jump on the board and reduce some of its waste. - xodus83 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:23:36 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/ecogeeks/1309#comment-9186 The start of your article is a little misleading. If all we wanted was to know how it was done, the fact that these are patents should have been enough. After all, that's the whole point of a patent in the first place: Publicize the technology in exchange for a short-term monopoly on business applications. It's great that we would be allowed to make money on these technologies, of course! - Joel Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:56:32 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/ecogeeks/1309#comment-9164 What a great idea. We're all going to need to work together to solve environmental problems, many of them time sensitive. So why make someone else reinvent the wheel when you've already done it? Does anyone know which other corporations are being actively recruited? It would be great if we could encourage them to join. - Carl Foner Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:43:54 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/ecogeeks/1309#comment-9159 Well done to all the companies involved - it can't have been very easy getting that level of change. - weee Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:11:32 +0100