Wednesday, 02 February 2000
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Dave Winer has been making patent-sounding noises (just little hints, really) lately about his Manila product (See editthispage.com). Manila is really just another variant of a WikiWiki, which certainly qualifies as prior art. But, given the utter stupidity and dismal track record, of the USTPO people, it never hurts to overkill anything to do with prior art.
Swikis are WikiWikis that come with Squeak, the free software Smalltalk system. Mark Guzdial is a Squeak guru (and CS prof at Niel's alma mater GaTech) and has made a brillant first-strike in the prior art game.
So, I decided that one way to make sure that Dave Winer can't say that he didn't know about Prior Art is by making his site an advertisement for the prior art.
Please visit http://thewikifrontier.editthispage.com/
Let me know if you're a member of Userland, and I'll make sure to add you as a member who can edit the page. Let's please include links to as many kinds of Wikis (especially those older than Manila) as possible. (If you'd like to mail me with an addition, feel free, and I'll post it for you.)
Please feel free to pass this URL around. Generating traffic for the site is a good way of making sure that it attracts Dave's attention.
This is The Wiki Frontier <http://monkeyfist.com/articles/174>