From fe49fbd3430dd066c80484d069ca4b33865b828d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lkcl <lkcl@web>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:03:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH]

---
 nlnet.mdwn | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nlnet.mdwn b/nlnet.mdwn
index 0b66eeaca..3ee1a3e47 100644
--- a/nlnet.mdwn
+++ b/nlnet.mdwn
@@ -200,3 +200,8 @@ between being "financially rewarded with charitable donations" and
       [sotto voice: and to be honest the traffic volume is so high and it's
       of such specialist interest that nobody's going to be looking who isn't
       genuinely interested :) ]
+      An additional very important reason: we need proof of prior art,
+      in case some idiotic patent troll tries to patent ideas they happen
+      to get a glimpse of.  By keeping the full and complete discussion
+      on recorded **timestamped** archives such efforts may be invalidated.
+
-- 
2.30.2