Their whole argument is silly. If anything software patents are a form of rent-seeking behaviour because they exploit regulation to prevent competition and ear

Their whole argument is silly. If anything software patents are a form of rent-seeking behaviour because they exploit regulation to prevent competition and earn rewards. Furthermore, only huge entrenched companies seem to build up patent war chests, not spry startups who are too busy building things. Then the article lumps everything that can't be explained by patents (14%) into rent-seeking behavior (86%) and claims that's the real source of inequality and the real problem.