Can it be that prison guards are actually trying to steal his ideas? I swear that seems farfetched. Rather, I'd think it was a way for them to just screw over another prisoner and let him know who's in charge. It costs money to patent an invention, unless you know how yourself, and then you only have a patent not a check you can deposit in your bank account. The again, what isn't too farfetched in Bell's case is that he's actually developed something as interesting as AP and someone far outside the system is trying to interfere with it somehow, using some local leverage. Meanwhile, the annouced personal freedom conference in late June in NYC is looking like a cypherpunks reunion.
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 16:11:48 -0400 To: rah@shipwright.com From: jya@pipeline.com Subject: Re: Jim Bell Demands Right to File Patents CC: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net
Jim has about two years to go, with whatever time off his exemplary behavior warrants.
The good news is that he has had bountiful time to develop an invention which he claims will make billions of dollars, transform science as much as the discovery of the atom, and, most happily, render governments into gibbering gangs of synchophants rabid to serve him myrrh.
If the vermin don't steal his intellectual property, which he avers is near certain.
Could be Jim is gestating a chem-bio virus for the varmints to gobble.
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