A mono developer is calling on BoycottNovell to work together to “fix the US patent system”.

Wow – lots of interest in patents going around lately! Anyway, here’s C.J. Adams-Collier message:

Roy,

Would you like to work with me to fix the US patent system? I sure would like it if you’d stop saying mean things about the most active and effective Free Software developers I know. If we have to fix the broken patent system in order for you to stop giving F/OSS a black eye, then let’s do it, k?

A bit loaded, but a fair enough question.

I was disappointed to find the author already followed it up with an IRC log that he asserts shows “Roy and friends” were not interested. The log looks like it was back in Sep of 2008. It’s a mixture of hate and crazy on both sides – the IRC conversation is absolutely pointless, and the blog comments are basically vilification and point-and-laugh-at-the-crazies.

So, it looks more like a swipe at BoycottNovell than an actual call for rational discourse.

Anyway, worth a read if you want to see the bit of then bad on both sides, I guess.