History

Back in 2000, Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly put together a neat-o site called BountyQuest. I remember it quite well (although I was shocked to realize how long ago it had been), and when a couple of patent outrages took place this year, I was shocked again to realize BountyQuest had gone away (Tim O'Reilly explained why in 2003).

Depatentizing is meant to be kind of a revival of the concept. BountyQuest was the attempt to start a business on this; Depatentizing is just going to tick along on its $20/month Linode instance with a hat out.

Oh, I'll put in a bounty system, just in case. But I'm not focused on a business model; I want something to serve as a focus for patent abuse cases.