Nous avons commencé a préparer des preuves de non-nouveauté contre des attaques de brevet logiciel qu'on doit anticiper. Une cdrom avec documentations de technique antérieures est envoyée a une bibliothèque chaque mois.
Building a patent portfolio is hardly a realistic option for the self-defense of the free/opensource software community. However this community has a certain chance of leveraging prior art to its advantage, especially if it does this in a cost-efficient manner and realises the potential of legal insecurity inherent in the software patent system. So called Defensive Publishing, as has been proposed by initiatives like the Foresight Institute, however appears to be an incredibly silly approach. The most urgent task at this moment (spring 2001) is to time-stamp every CVS archive and every mailing list on which software ideas are developped.