Is it true that Acadon is patented?
? A: The “linked alternative language” technology involved in the design and machine translation software for Acadon is covered by a U.S. patent pending. Use of the Acadon language is not patented. Some aspects of the language, its documentation, and its software are covered by copyright. This is not intended to restrict use of the Acadon language as such. Protection of the various innovative aspects of the Acadon system is intended to give commercial value to the project as a tool for access to data, for better communication on the Internet, etc. By rewarding those who may develop the many potentialities of the system, the Acadon Development Corporation (link)* will be a instrumentality for assuring that those potentialities do get implemented in the form of publications, software, hardware, and other products. The ADC Mission Statement is here.(#10) It is, in fact, one of the innovations of the Acadon project that for the first time in world history the creation of an international a
