Re: Anthropic's Mythos and Project Glasswing

Justin, thank you. That is more pile-on to the issue. I take a daily amount of a health supplement, a specific combination of ingredients in proportion, that got the first patent on a food product. The proportions were scientifically adjusted for best benefit. It has copycats that have to be x percent different.

Remember the brouhaha over the company that tried to kibosh IBM's Linux? Sheesh. The inventory of the Internet protocol released it to the world and gets credit today. I do believe in credit to the first one.

It's a bit easier for me to see the fairness and utility of this perspective because from college days I became a free-market anarcho-capitalist. (Not to be confused with chaos).

--Alan

On 04/09/2026 1:57 PM EDT Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Depends on how you define recipe. You can copyright the product name and
the actual text of the recipe. You can't copyright the actual ingredients
and process.



On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

<snip>
"legal whirlwind if you apply the patent regime to food recipes."
</snip>


Already happens, and continues to happen. You can’t say “tollhouse
cookies” since it is registered along with the recipe. You can say
“chocolate Chip” since that is public domain.

I want my intellectual property protected, therefore I copy-write
everything, and if/when I come up with something patentable, I will apply
for it. Your wish for a cost free world is not sustainable nor
practical. I can choose to put my code is open source, but I’ll put a
license on it that protects it. Still it’s my choice.


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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