Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 21:30:06 +0000 (GMT)

> What the free software community needs isn't so much a way of "buying
> into" some kind of partial rights to software patents, but a horde of
> people finding prior art, to defend free software.

Thats I think the wrong approach. If US patents are like EU patents you
sign an affidavit that what you claim is the truth. It would be far
more effective to start finding clearly bogus patents and sueing the
lacky who signed their name to it for perjury.

Alan

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