Isn't that like having an armed peacekeeping force ? You can see the logic but it seems wrong somehow. Like a nuclear deterrent.
There's a discussion over on Slashdot about this - someone makes the important point that it only works with patent users .. not patent trolls, who don't actually make anything.
-adrian
Bryan Bishop wrote:
(I'll be currating responses at the openmanufacturing.org group, if anyone is interested in hearing all the responses..)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: shazzner shazzner@gmail.com Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:29 AM Subject: [austin-hacker-space] Defensive Patent License To: Austin Hackerspace austin-hacker-space@googlegroups.com
There is some new scuttlebutt over Defensive Patent Licenses as a way out for open-source software companies to avoid patent litigation against producing entities.
I think this might be work for hardware along with software too, so we might see a Hackerspace defensive patent pool. Discuss.
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/will-defensive-patent-license-be-abl... http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/dpl-and-fair-troll-business-model-ma...