Won't this just allow the incumbents to threaten others with their crappy software patents, while making it harder for new entrants to acquire enough of their o

Won't this just allow the incumbents to threaten others with their crappy software patents, while making it harder for new entrants to acquire enough of their own crappy software patents to defend themselves? A pretty good argument has been made that we should just legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement.[1] Why not just do that? [1] http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents/ http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-softwa...