"Fair Trolls" To Fight Patents With Patents

FlorianMueller writes "Can a patent troll ever be fair? Yes. The primary concern over the upcoming Defensive Patent License — a GPL-like non-aggression pact for patents — is that it might be too defensive to have the desired impact. But actually the DPL could grow very big if one or more 'Fair Trolls' are brought to life and enforce patents against companies that don't support the DPL. The 'Fair Trolls' would commit to the DPL's terms, so they would have to leave other DPL backers alone. In exchange for this, the community would gladly feed them with patentable ideas (financial rewards for contributors included). Over time, staying outside the DPL alliance would become a costly choice for companies whose products might infringe patents. The bigger the DPL pool gets, the more valuable it becomes to its members. The more aggressive the Fair Trolls are, the better for the cause."

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Guns are plenty fair

[IBitOBear]

As long as everyone gets one.

Why might I want an automatic weapon? Hunting my ass, that argument should never have been raised.

You just never know when you might need to kill a non-trivial number of people in rapid succession.

That is neither a jest nor a threat. The express purpose of the second amendment to the constitution can be found in any civics book when reading about the actions of the British Red Coats as an occupying force. This is actually true of virtually all of the bill of rights. The citizenry is _supposed_ to have the right to be individually at _least_ as well armed as any member of the government.

As for guns, its supposed to function as the voting right of last resort. There are always more citizens, and if it comes to it they have the right to oust the constabulary or the government if it gets out of control.

The constitution was, after all, written by a bunch of Revolutionary Idealists who, by definition believed in the right of popular revolt.

But then again yea, if only patent trolls are allowed to have guns then only criminals will be patent trolls or something... 8-)