If I were a young and enterprising lawyer (I am not, I am programmer), I would sell companies bullied by patent trolls legal defense for 90% of the sum being blackmailed.
Companies that "took advantage of this program" would be entitled to everything included legal defense in future demand arising from not yielding to the patent trolls.
Startups would only pay 90% of the extorted sum, and also have the advantage of not giving in and helping perpetuate the trolls' scheme.
I as a lawyer would earn a lot of income but would only have to defend in court a small number of app developers actually being sued.
I think something like this would work because what really intimidates small entrepreneurs is not losing the case in court, but just the onerous weight of fighting the case, no matter its outcome.
The community would benefit from patent trolls earning less money.
Finally, I know that there is a chance that patent trolls would litigate against each and every one refusing to give in. But in that case they would be DoSing themselves.
But I think there is only one programming environment that supports multiple natural languages. Lucio's (a friend of mine ) turtleacademy.com.
The turtle academy is a programming environment with lessons for teaching kids logo.
For professional programming, a non-english programming language is just a curiosity, non of them has ever gained global traction nor will probably gain.
For kids, for learning, supporting multiple languages is a must.
http://stackoverflow.com/users/1249338/frosty?tab=reputation...