Joseph Kiniry kiniry@acm.org writes:
Has anyone tracked these proposed software projects?
This is the first I've heard of them.
They're probably not worth too much attention though. They say they're trying to help free software, but they're avoiding our main problem (that patents could block us from writing useful free software replacements for popular proprietary software), and they're addressing the problem that hits Microsoft and the big proprietary companies as much as it hits us (patent thickets and trolls/zombies living off litigation based on patents bought from less-litigious companies).
I'm not saying that initiatives like this are not backed by good intentions, but there's not much that people in the USA can actually do to prevent the harm that software patents do to free software (and software freedom in general).