<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Danny Hillis was granted a patent (#7,502,770) on the<br>
entire concept of Freebase, so it's reasonable to assume that there<br>
are other patents lurking.</blockquote></div><br>
you'd think there would be some dissonance about filing a patent on a system that depends on community goodwill.<br>i didn't know about this. what an insult.<br>