"The newest chapter in the ongoing saga of patents-and-Linux tackles the whole issue from an entirely new direction: empowering the process of prior art discovery. It's a smart approach, especially since real patent reform is still years to decades away. To be honest, I expected something like this to spring up in some form or another — and what's striking is how the idea I'd batted around resembles what the Linux Defenders folks are doing. I'd considered something along the lines of a social-information / Wikipedia-like site, where people could look at dubious patent filings and tag them with prior art references — either previous patent filings or real-world examples."
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/linux_defenders.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL
