Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--3b7c08-But there is one kind of organ/en

But there is one kind of organization for which licensing patents works very well, and that is the large multinational corporations; the reason is that they own many patents themselves and they use them to force cross-licensing. What does this mean? Well, essentially the only defense against patents is deterrence: you have to have patents of your own, then you hope that if somebody points a patent at you, you will be able point a patent back and say &ldquo;don't sue me, because I'll sue you.&rdquo;