Linus Torvalds tends to favour patents, and has three himself. > I think patents probably work better in certain areas than they do in ours. Software patents?

Linus Torvalds tends to favour patents, and has three himself. > I think patents probably work better in certain areas than they do in ours. Software patents? No. Process patents? No. They just don't make sense. It's not clear from the actual quote that he thinks both software and process patents "don't make sense" as the title states (or just process patents). He probably does, but it's not clear from this interview. I think he's very insightful about patent and copyright litigation being especially nasty from a legal perspective, because it's winner take all with no middle ground. Oh, and he think Java and the JVM are "horrible". So consider this polemic approach when assessing his patent views.