I wrote a article about software patents a few years ago: http://paulbiggar.com/research/article.txt http://paulbiggar.com/research/article.txt. The issue seem

I wrote a article about software patents a few years ago: http://paulbiggar.com/research/article.txt http://paulbiggar.com/research/article.txt. The issue seems to pop up every couple of years. Each time, abolition of software patents seems closer and closer, but never quite gets there.