Bottomley: A Roadmap for Eliminating Patents in Open Source

James Bottomley has posted adetailed description of how patent exhaustion might be used to mostlyeliminate the software patent threat to free software. "Theintriguing possibility this offers us is that we may be close to anenforceable court decision (at least in the US) that would render allpatents in open source owned by community members exhausted and thusunenforceable. The purpose of this blog post is to explain the currentlandscape and how we might be able to get the necessary missing courtdecisions to make this hope a reality." LWN covered the FOSDEM talk by Van Lindberg that underlies Bottomley's post.