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Re:Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighti... by lutusp on Saturday February 02, 2013 @08:38PM (#5158154)
> Wouldn't it be better for the FSF to create a generic fund that agressively went after these trolls?

No, that only treats the symptoms. It would be much better to cure the disease -- the broken patent system.

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Re:Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighti... by melling on Saturday February 02, 2013 @09:22PM (#5158277)
And while we wait for that to happen? In the meantime, something else needs to be done while we're waiting for Godot.
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Re:Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighti... by lutusp on Saturday February 02, 2013 @09:33PM (#5158312)
> And while we wait for that to happen?

With limited resources, we're better off investing in a wholesale overhaul of the patent system, compared to fighting one patent troll after another. The reason? After we've spent millions fighting patent trolls, we will face a new generation of trolls who have learned valuable lessons from the methods we used in the past.

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