I stated I see the good intentions.

I am "owner" of a bunch of patents, too, and some have actually been proven their test of time by after years having been re-invented (better: "parallel-invented later in time") elsewhere in the open source world.

But in my value system one does not do press releases saying "HELLO! We have decided not to do something evil!".

They could have done the very same thing done quietly to make clear there is no hidden agenda.

"Look, we hold this trivial patent on the open source ecosystem. No no no, all will be fine. No, no, we will not pick up the phone should Broadcom call us one day."

Yay. \o/