Bottomley: A Roadmap for Eliminating Patents in Open Source

James Bottomley has posted a detailed description of how patent exhaustion might be used to mostly eliminate the software patent threat to free software. "The intriguing possibility this offers us is that we may be close to an enforceable court decision (at least in the US) that would render all patents in open source owned by community members exhausted and thus unenforceable. The purpose of this blog post is to explain the current landscape and how we might be able to get the necessary missing court decisions to make this hope a reality." LWN covered the FOSDEM talk by Van Lindberg that underlies Bottomley's post.

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