Yea, I'm a big fan of much of Rob's work (from Plan 9 to Go), but about this he is plain wrong. At the same time I'm a big critic of RMS and his work (from GCC

Yea, I'm a big fan of much of Rob's work (from Plan 9 to Go), but about this he is plain wrong. At the same time I'm a big critic of RMS and his work (from GCC to the GPL, passing by the Free Software Song ;) but he is right that software patents are a very harmful monster.