If Darwin would really turn in his grave every time he was misquoted he would be spinning faster than a neutron star. Granted his quote is a little ill put, but what he meant is "Survival of the One Most Fitting to their local environment" NOT the one with the best health! Every time Darwin is misquoted like this it pisses me off, but when knowledgeable and intelligent people do it, it pisses me off enough for me to respond fiercely. Why? because every time this happens we continue the misconception.[/rant] The author cleverly avoided blame by portraying this as the general opinion. But just by saying this Hugh Pickens still does keep the misunderstanding alive. Hence rant. Sorry to bother you.

Besides I fully support any sentient life form that breaks away from a an ever growing company that doesn't have propper support and are unreachable for their users. Perhaps she might have some way to get my AdWords and AdSense accounts activated that I requested on the 31st of.. oh wait.. now it all makes sense!

Just in case it's not a joke I'd like to be among the ones to live through this :-)

So the biggest problem fighting unreasonable patents is that it is expensive and risky?
That can be easily solved.

Lets take a closer look at personal meaning of the word expensive
A private jet would be very expensive to ME, but not to a businessman flying from New York to Tokyo 3 times a month.

Since we have seen that it is expensive to most businesses to fight unreasonable patents due to the cost and risks involved in such an undertaking.
We now only have to find or invent an entity to whom this might not be expensive.
So I propose to form an entity with the sole purpose of fighting unreasonable patents.
This entity needs to maintain it self so it needs funds and what better way to get them then to ask those funds of the people who are bothered by such patents but don't have the time or money to do it by themselves.

I myself don't have the time to start a foundation against unreasonable patents, but since I am in the web development business, I would gladly donate a hundred bucks to a foundation who promices to fight the EOLAS patent, and so would many others.

This foundation would then function as a party that checks and rechecks existing and new patents.
And by doing so functions as a safety net against fuckups of the patent office.
The ultimate result would be that the patent offices would improve on their research and implications of patent requests they receive. Simply because they probably don't like being overruled each time.
At best we would have two organizations competing with each other over the most perfectly suitable patents, thus improving overall usability and validity.

So this way you can fly under the radar for as long as you want while anonymously donating to a foundation to fight that patent.
If it works out for you fine, if it doesn't, then continue flying under the radar.

So if anyone has any time to spend on this?