> > 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.
I'm pretty sure that you submit these things ``to the best of your
knowledge'' like many contracts, which means you have to prove they
really knew this at the time. I think finding prior art would be
easier, but both methods should be tried, depending on the exact
situation.
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