as well is that ^
So why on earth is GMAX's brain bound to legal shit?
Should he not better be providing open source solutions for REAL BITCOINERS in a competitive open and fair / supporting way ?
When does this childish stuff finally ends? We need a way of choosing parts & modules of competing teams- not a full singleton solution provider that also needs to care about legal, economics , game theory ... ?
I doubt that any prudent approach could not avoid some legal consultations because there is risks in attempting to patent and there are risks in attempting to leave open source. It is kind of a bunch of bullshit that bitcoin could become truly disruptive and a tool of the people, but then the patent system may allow for various attempts of private individuals to claim property rights over aspects of bitcoin's various technological innovations - by claiming that they did it first and that bitcoin cannot do it... .. and in such a case, the question might be who do they sue to attempt to get the innovation removed from bitcoin?