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What I'd like to see is a collective legal fund to protect devs from patent trolls. Like insurance, everyone pays into the system and if you need representation, high quality lawyers would be there for you. That seems to me to be the best solution to this problem short of abolishing software patents altogether.

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I like they idea, but I don't see how it reduces the risk. If someone has a valid patent, you're still in trouble.

An independent developers' patent pool, then.

Patent pools are no defense against trolls.

Fair point.

No, you just have to make sure they understand that a lawsuit against you ends with a verdict from the supreme court after a long and costly legal battle.

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