Re: [spoon-discuss] Proto-prop: Patents

[Glotmorf <nomicmorf@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 09:55 PM, Glotmorf
> wrote:
> 
> >>>> Just don't give Dave lots and lots of
> extraneous
> >>>> work, that's all I'm saying.-
> >>>
> >>> As compared to reinventing an in-game production
> >> and
> >>> commerce system? :)
> >>>
> >> -As I recall, we had a Ministry to help some
> there.
> >> As I recall, it was my ministry. So yes, as
> opposed
> >> to recreating said system.-
> >
> > What I meant was, you're creating an economic
> system
> > now.  Even if the method of tracking patents is
> > trivial, you're setting up a system of allocating
> > resources, creating objects, conducting
> transactions
> > between entities and so on, all of which need to
> be
> > officially recognized actions on the public forum.
>  My
> > guess is that patents won't cause anywhere near as
> > much work as the economic system that is based on
> > them.
> >
> > Les'n you're looking to create a new ministry
> too...?
> 
> Anyone here heard of Kevan's Generic Nomic Data
> Tracker? It looks 
> useful... See http://kevan.org/generic for details.

Yeah, he used that in BlogNomic.  When I was in the
game, it allowed anyone to change any stat and comment
on why e was making the change; it then kept an audit
trail of the changes.

It could work to support a ministry, I should think,
with the minister recognizing stuff on the public
forum.  I suppose it could even BE a public forum,
though once upon a time some Linux/Lynx people here
objected to a web-based forum.

-- Glotmorf

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