the penitent of the 21st century.. zero income and rightous statements to the other miscreants.. MSFT took in nine figures this year on software patents alone?

the penitent of the 21st century.. zero income and rightous statements to the other miscreants.. MSFT took in nine figures this year on software patents alone? while they re-process GPL code and sell it? where are the market forces for individual authors? death by starvation with a tombstone that says "I was right" I am still looking for realistic responses here, two+ decades later