VoodooJS – Mix 2D and 3D content on the same page

Analogous to what Stallman once coined, you are now literally talking about patenting ideas[0].

> To date, I don't believe this idea has been suggested anywhere else, and while it might seem obvious in hindsight, it took many late nights of experimenting developing it.

> There was no promise that the research would pay off or the end result would even work.

Aka every single software that is a little more daring than standard CRUD. Are you seriously suggesting that a patent is the only way to be properly compensated for your work?

Might I suggest a different route? How about you release what you have there the same way all those libraries you base your work on were released. Trust me, they are full of research that nobody knew would pay off, with things that seem obvious in hindsight, but took many, MANY late nights of experimenting.

If what you're saying is true and your "novel ideas" and the solutions you've found really are that valuable, then there is an incredible trove of respect and admiration waiting for you. (And if you're smart, you will find ways to convert that into "making a living".) You'd be robbing yourself of a huge community (again, the same community that you are currently using - bootstrap, jquery, threejs, modernizer etc.) cheering you on, respecting you in the same way that you might have felt using those other public libraries.

The only thing you see at the moment is that you have something and you imagine that the thing you have should be the thing that pays your bills, directly. So you have decided to close it down as much as you possibly can (and, judging from the use of public, floss libraries, it's debatable how much you actually can). I'm telling you there is another way. You could be "the library" for people mixing 2D and 3D.

The path you're on right now only leads to one of two things: First, you're going to go closed-source. Then somebody else will write a floss "the library". Then you get angry and lawyer up. Then you realize that only the US and a handful of other countries is idiotic enough to allow for patents on software. Then you realize that trying to "go legal" is probably pointless. Here, you are at a crossroads: On one side is the path I'm telling you to go now, you're then just five years behind on where you could be now and somebody else has earned all the admiration and respect. On the other side is an old and bitter man, clutching his wallet.

[0] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html