[spectre] ascribe.io resembles project Virtual Entity

[xname]

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Dear all,

this email is to let everyone know that one of my software projects,
Virtual Entity, initiated at the end of 2007, and fairly widespread on the
Internet and presented at festivals, tech events, Institutes and Universities, 
has been barely reproduced by a startup called:

http://ascribe.io

which pretends to have invented the NEW thing in archiving, metadata and
licensing.

The system technically works pretty much the same and the logic behind it
is identical, but, whereas I made a poetic art project, they are making a
busyness. Mine was a working prototype, whereas they have built a huge
database.

http://virtualentity.org

I've contacted the founders who just acknowledged the similarities between
the two projects and offered me to write a blog post on their site. They
affirm they were not aware of the project, which in my opinion doesn't
matter (although, to be honest, on a second look, is quite hard to
believe). In fact, before declaring you have invented something, 
you should make your research.

In any case, we don't think a blog post is enough to declare the origin of the
idea and we are currently investigating more exciting options towards a fruitful 
collaboration with Ascribe.

Funnily enough, the whole project constructs a narrative where the inventor 
is a CREATOR rather than a owner, so it is interesting that this is happening 
right now.

Cheers,
xname


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