Comment Should FOSS Developers Apply for Patents? (Score 1) 185
From the Software Freedom Law Center's legal guide:
Merely owning a few patents will not provide an effective defensive counterweight to a hostile competitor that holds hundreds or thousands of patents. It will also be entirely ineffective against so-called patent trolls. Patent trolls are companies that acquire, sue on and license patents but do not produce any products that might infringe others' patents.
