I think this is hard strategy to convince the world to follow. It involves causing culture shift in existing business and the culture momentum in this case is n

I think this is hard strategy to convince the world to follow. It involves causing culture shift in existing business and the culture momentum in this case is not insignificant. The next problem is that the business exist in a legal system that rewards patenting profusely and broadly. A company that refuses to do this is at a disadvantage. In addition to avoiding companies that participate in such behavior what other strategies to you think are worth while? Google is the biggest advocate for change in the direction of devaluing software patents or at least they are easy to observe doing such.