Faith that people can sign it and have their voices heard, perhaps influencing policy, or faith that this will destroy software patents forever all by itself?
@Voices heard, influencing policy: spot on. Unfortunately, they are as bad as we are when it comes to corporate dominance. They just haven't said We The Corporations... like us yanks have.
@destroy patents forever: I don't know if that's a good thing. Obviously you and I disagree on a lot of it, but its more complicated than I can work through. Stopping one form of protection while allowing others simply means that smart people will move where they have their money on the table. Unless you can truly balance the field, completely, then these efforts will fall flat IMO. I have absolutely zero belief that a completely egalitarian software field will emerge, or that the real money will ever allow all protections to be eliminated - it will simply get harder for the little guy to understand and make use of, and the big companies that have the money to make it work, will.
So: My lack of faith, I guess, is in the notion that bucking the system in this way will produce anything that serves mankind in any real way.
