Yeah, and I think that's a step in the right direction, but not far enough. We need to #AbolishPatents, no qualifiers. Software patents are stupid too but the

Yeah, and I think that's a step in the right direction, but not far enough. We need to #AbolishPatents, no qualifiers. Software patents are stupid too but the truly grotesque patents are in medicine. Nothing is more responsible for the opioid epidemic than the billions in incentives Purdue had to patent and then falsely market Oxycontin. Check out the docs from 1996, patents were the key to their business model. If they had no patents there would have been no incentive for them to get millions addicted to a harmful drug. Patents created monopoly profits and brought out the worst in human behavior.