Nobody gets to just "do away with software patents," because that'd be a legislative procedure, and an uphill battle in a snowstorm even understand the best of

Nobody gets to just "do away with software patents," because that'd be a legislative procedure, and an uphill battle in a snowstorm even understand the best of circumstances. Take a quick glance at what the US legislative process is up to at the moment, and will be up to at least through 2020. There will be no progress. On anything.