A Sáb, 2004-05-15 às 14:04, Niall Douglas escreveu:
On 15 May 2004 at 0:40, João Miguel Neves wrote:
I'm working in a way to solve that problem. It's strange, but possible... It's just too soon for details.
I had an idea for that - I don't know if it's similar to yours - companies could throw their software patents in a mutually owned holding company. If any of the members gets sued for patent infringement, the full weight of all the other patents is used to countersue and each member agrees to contribute their share of the legal costs.
If big enough, this system could render software patents unenforceable.
Well, I've seen too many of those proposals, and people working on them, to believe it could work. You can't countersue a non-technical company of lawyers that holds patents. And there are too many of those nowadays.