Talk:Duds and non-solutions

Tagging them clearly

The individual pages about insufficient solutions need to be tagged more clearly as such. A Template would suffice, something like {{welcome}} or {{bilski}}, but with the danger/warning box colours. Ciaran 10:11, 13 October 2009 (EDT)

How about this?

What this entry documents is not a solution.
This practice may be ineffective or useless in the long term.
ESP's position is that abolition of software patents is the only solution.

steelpillow 16:59, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Yup. I think that's good and clear. Ciaran 21:24, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Others ideas that might or might not work well

• Disallow a fee for licensing patent pools, making it difficult for MPEG LA etc to extort you for commonly used products.
• Publish a cryptographic hash of the defensive publication, to prevent patent writers from working around it.
• Make software with different components available as source codes to easily exclude parts (for which binaries might not be distributed), but you can just easily put them back in again when you want to use those features.
• Disallow copyright and patent claims against those who declare themself exempt from asserting their own claims against anything.
• Disallow patent claims against private use and against use on computers that you can run your own programs on. (e.g. distributing a Game Boy ROM image file would fall under this exemption, and so would distributing a iPhone program as source code, but this exemption would not apply to a Game Boy cartridge (since it doesn't have the end user's capability of programming it) or to the App Store (since the device is locked to only run software from the App Store and not your own software).)

There are some advantages and disadvantages. --Zzo38 (talk) 02:57, 5 November 2021 (EDT)