I’m starting to wonder if we in the open-source community need a grass-roots effort to address patent and license issues. For the moment, let’s just call it “usethesystem.org.” Its purpose will be to help our open-source community put aside a resistance to patents and some of the misperceptions that are preventing the community from defending itself with a strong patent portfolio. We have the opportunity to thrive by embracing patents and highly promising means to do so, if we accept them as a fundamental part of our system.
Link: Computerworld
