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If you can't beat em, join em.

If you can't beat em, join em.

Posted Jun 1, 2004 16:55 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: If you can't beat em, join em. by error27
Parent article: An open letter from Alan Cox

"...has any cash and most people aren't organized enough to use the patent pool effectively in any case."

The commercial part of the community coul finance that,... and that include IBM, HP, SGI, Red Hat and more... of whom i think there could easly come more than enough money...

... and organisation wouldn't have to be that meticulous, because a patent pool its only a defensive mechanism.


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