Another pocket rocket "invented" - India this time

[phildodd]

Hello. A website known for it's reporting of positive new ideas has found yet another version of the pocket rocket. This time it has been "created" by Indian student engineers. The website is :

www.fastcoexist.com/mba/1680878/a-safer-stove-for-the-developing-world-created-by-indian-student-entrepreneurs

I've no idea how that this affects the work that you guys have been doing to keep everything documented and under control, but I thought that I'd better mention it to you...

Regards

Phil

[Donkey]

Well.. The more the merrier.
Ah, that's not a pocket rocket, it's an Aprovecho style cooker. Nice job of it too.
I expect that there wont' be any issues, as long as they don't attempt to patent the thing..
If anyone "owns" the design it would be Aprovecho. Seems to me the thing belongs in the public domain.

[satamax]

Nov 16, 2012 12:00:11 GMT -8 Donkey said:

Well.. The more the merrier.
Ah, that's not a pocket rocket, it's an Aprovecho style cooker. Nice job of it too.
I expect that there wont' be any issues, as long as they don't attempt to patent the thing..
If anyone "owns" the design it would be Aprovecho. Seems to me the thing belongs in the public domain.

Well, there's documented previous work, just in the form of Ianto's book. But also as thousands of posts on the net. Prety sure it's in the public domain by now.