Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote: > On Sun, April 1, 2007 01:32, Tom Lane wrote: > > > The idea of OIN is to have a large patent pool that can be > > counter-asserted against anyone who doesn't want to play nice. > > Mutual assured destruction in the patent sphere, if you will. > > And from the participants' point of view, I suppose the big attraction > must be that they do away with a threat to their patents. If you have a > patent that matches what some open project (not worth suing) has been > doing for the past few years, then anyone else you might want to sue about > the patent could point to that project and say "if you have a valid > patent, why didn't you say something when they infringed it?"
You can be as selective as you want about enforcing patents --- copyright/trademark enforcement does require consistent enforcement. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
