On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:16:04AM -0600, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > No.. we need to have a patent-a-thon, where we get 200 geeks at a > conference to think up ideas to patent that are very broad and then have > them looked at by some lawyers who are on our side. We then file them in > short order and when awarded put that the only way the items can be used > is if the implementation is GPL'd or they buy a private license from > FSF. (or put your favorite license/organization there.) I figure that we > can hack the system quite well enough that the organizations decide that > making changes should be ok. Then you start parading out the worst > patents in ways that really affect people until they decide that they > need to clean/remove it. I think what we need is for someone like IBM (actually, forget "someone like" -- IBM'll do) to do this with a broad swath of _their_ patents.... -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
