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Good luck. Dr Zol Bahri - Universiti Malaysia Perlis

Feb. 6th 2016

I was alarmed to learn about the Natick Project given my earlier project proposal in August 2012. In that year, I submitted the very same idea of underwater data centers through the Mozilla Ignite contest. I had hoped that such an  idea would benefit human kind and the planet. But also I had hoped that by having this idea in the public sphere, corporations would be prevented from patenting the idea. As you can see, the Natick Research Project website describes the problems in a very similar manner as I had. (See https://www.mozillaignite.org/ideas/169/)

The team admits to having thought of the idea well after I had published my idea. I have a difficult time imagining that Microsoft would not have done their due diligence in searching to see if others had previously expressed a similar idea. Indeed, had they done so, I imagine that my project would have been found.