Even if you intend to have a completely open project patents aren’t necessarily a bad thing. Patents prevent others form parenting it, even if prior art exists

Even if you intend to have a completely open project patents aren’t necessarily a bad thing. Patents prevent others form parenting it, even if prior art exists someone can still get a patent and the legal battle to revoke it can be costly if you don’t have large corporate backing. So getting patents and offering them under an open FRAND license is a good option, some of the most common standards we have work this way. Ofc if the only reason you get patents is to commercialize them later it’s going to be quite hard to get people to adopt your stuff.