The Goldfish Chronicles

I’m sure there are people doing this somewhere, but why not just start patenting things willy-nilly too?

IBM and Sun can resolve a patent-spat by playing swapsies with their patent-portfolio. Is there any open-community group who are organizing patent-pools?

I’m not suggesting it for Europe, as they’ve not got the problem yet, but in the US, the EFF or someone could assist (information, time) any member of the community to patent an idea. When Sun or IBM decide to throw a fit at someone’s 1-click, the open-community’s patent-portfolio can be thrown onto the floor.

I imagine it would come down to the old chestnut of whether the open-community innovate, or replicate. Could the Apache community go out and patent 10 things tomorrow morning, based on their codebase.

Anyway, probably happening somewhere already.

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