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> By contrast, your extremist proposal of allowing patentholders to block software implementations of international standards unless they are paid, that is clearly absurd, as it imposes a completely unreasonable burden on the open-source maintainers who are the backbone of modern software.

My extremist proposal, where I say in the first line that opensource maintainers should be free of any patent requirement?

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Your proposal doesn't in fact say that, and that doesn't go far enough, because it doesn't protect users' rights to actually obtain and run the software. You're proposing to give up almost all of our rights without a fight in the face of the patent menace.

We need far stronger protections from patentholders than that, even if perhaps observing the Geneva Conventions might be a worthwhile concession to make in the process.

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