>In other words, they’ll be demanding licensing fees over lots and lots of software patents. By and large, software patents are the lowest quality patents, and

>In other words, they’ll be demanding licensing fees over lots and lots of software patents. By and large, software patents are the lowest quality patents, and their rise has coincided with the rise of large-scale patent trolling. Software patents are just a way for lawyers to parasitize some of the productivity (wealth) created by software engineers and companies that actually build things. They should be summarily banned. Now that congress is "only" 40% lawyers (down from 80%) we might be able to get such legislation through government. But I'm sure lobbyists will do everything they can to block it.