what about posting this exact question at groklaw?
On Feb 7, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
Dear Community,
Most of you know that OpenMoko is a fully independent company at
this point. With this great opportunity comes many challenges.
Today I would like to share one with you all and ask for some advice.
We need to file patents for our hardware as well as software
designs. While my personal views on software patents are inline
with people like Eben Moglen, as a company, we are forced to play
by the rules of the game.
What I want is for a our company's patents to be freely available,
for anyone, but for defensive purposes only.
Are there any existing options available to us now? Does anyone
know of existing companies or organizations with a similar strategy
that we can seek guidance or partnership.
Again, I want to emphasize that we only want our patents to be used
in defense. And what constitutes defense is something that we want
to be able to define (and potentially even redefine when new
threats arise).
Thanks in advance for the help.
Sean
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