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A conference on software patents and free softwareA conference on software patents and free softwarePosted May 2, 2010 0:10 UTC (Sun) by jmspeex (subscriber, #51639)In reply to: A conference on software patents and free software by Simetrical Parent article: A conference on software patents and free software
While I'd be curious to see how your idea would work, I suspect it may run into anti-trust law issues.
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A conference on software patents and free software Posted May 2, 2010 1:42 UTC (Sun) by Simetrical (guest, #53439) [Link]
I can't see how. It's basically a big patent pool that will enforce its patents against anyone and everyone unless they cross-license all of their own patents. You have things like that in industry already. If MPEG-LA doesn't run afoul of antitrust law, I don't see how this would. You'd only run into antitrust law if you tried using your patents to drive competitors out of business or something, I'd think. Not if you simply demanded cross-licensing. Look at AMD and Intel.
A conference on software patents and free software Posted May 2, 2010 4:48 UTC (Sun) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
By then we would have contributed great value to the world!
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