Comment Re:OpenPatent (Score 1) 231
I think that the idea behind Open Patents is not to subvert this patent system, as backwards as it can get from time to time. The idea here is to give the open source movement in general a chance to thrive and compete with the established technology businesses.
Patents are a tool and we can use it just as well as anyone else can. We just have to know how.
We will use the patent system just like the big corporations do and just like the small time inventor does. With the right kind of Open Patent license (or whatever it will be called), patents will be used to give the open source community key advantages so that we can thrive and can continue to innovate.
- James Martin Luther
