MAJOR NEWS FROM CATOCOIN
CatoCoin's NextGen Technology has been granted
a Provisional Patent by the United States
Patent and Trademark Office


Congratulations!
I am one of CatoCoin investors, hence I would like to know the original source of the news, at which I can get more details.
Please give me link, CatoCoin.
https://twitter.com/catocoin/status/1020397006571925504A patent? Really? I mean, I can read and I see what you are claiming, but really, patents are a plague, especially when it comes to blockchain tech. Imagine Satoshi patenting Bitcoins technology, you might not even be here.
From what you are writign above, it seems like you are trying to fight fire with fire. Fair enough, but that puts a lot of power in the hands of whoever holds the patent. Unless the holder sets up a legally binding contract which specifies under which circumstances the holder is willing to assert their power, I am out.
Having the leagal power to punish users who don't share your personal views or whatever is way too centralized for my taste.
So, let us get this straight?
You do not like patents because thy restrict your ability to take someone's original code published under the GNU General Public License and then incorporate that code into your code which you will sell or provide publicly or privately for your personal gain while choosing TO NOT publish your work product under the GNU General Public License because you do not want people to find out where the routines actually came from? is that correct?
In terms of 'sharing our personal views', please remember that our personal views are the same as over 24 million others developers working across 67 million repositories who have chosen to make their codebase's public under the GNU General Public License and share freely with anyone else who will adhere to the GNU General Public License.