Previously, when absurd patents first (see edit) as far as our sight alerted us, the history is of course very long -- we placed all our public facing work in a

Previously, when absurd patents first (see edit) as far as our sight alerted us, the history is of course very long -- we placed all our public facing work in a arms length company. Down to the company website. I never imagined, then (being late 90s) that a brochureware dot com might require liability boxing legally, but I never imagined whole libraries like React being adopted so wholesale, so seemingly blindly (if not blindly, why has nobody posted the outcome of due diligence? A blog topic I'd like the attention from.) and so trivially as, yes, our brochureware site just could get used against us. Our early clients expressed concern, first: we had to pass their IP hygiene checks. We adopted those, right away. Such stringencies are why many entities I've worked with, have no or empty websites, but old old registration dates on their dot coms... * edit, missing dependant clause I guess was strongly implied, but it's about when we first saw frivolous, vexatious patent suits aiming at the front doors of random web presences condition there might be money and weak legal... I mistakenly imagined that to be spurious, not it would develop into a psedo- legitimate"industry". A moral thought: Maybe if we sold fewer reinvented wheels, there might be less temptation for parasitic behaviour to organize itself, like patent trolling has done? I can certainly plead the fifth to wheel reinvention, most days I write code ... (edit last) my meaning behind this is that I frequently have found highly objectionable behaviour being justified by the calling out of perceived comparable poor behaviour. Now I don't go sp far to condemn e.g. the js library crowd or any of anything for that matter, it's too young to blame yet. But with the first generation who grew up exposed to computing comparable to modernity, now maturing, its natural the industry will mature also. I see the brake on maturation more as lots of great new tools, than moral or human lacking. But self appointed grown ups trying to bully tax us, might be the natural parasitic compliment to this rich novel ecosystem. We don't need no random adults to appoint to combat this, we just need to question and talk about what is sane to accept. There's too much over reaching paternalism propping up big business assumptions, right now.