Have you thought about how it would acquire money to acquire the patents? Would you run the fundraising circuit and solicit donations? Also, I know what your

Have you thought about how it would acquire money to acquire the patents? Would you run the fundraising circuit and solicit donations? Also, I know what your question means, be careful of your wording "open source", patents are, by nature, open source, ie you can view what makes them work. (this is part of the point of patents) It's the licensing them that's the tough part, as they don't exactly operate under anything like the Apache/BSD/GNU license.