Another suggestion - try to avoid reinforcing group think or popular memes. It's a form of karma whoring that just encourages narrow thinking and prevents the d

Another suggestion - try to avoid reinforcing group think or popular memes. It's a form of karma whoring that just encourages narrow thinking and prevents the discussion of new ideas. There's really nothing to say about software patents at this point that hasn't been said many times before. In some ways this is an extension to the guideline of not introducing flamewar topics, but even less interesting as pretty much everyone agrees.