Martin Fowler sums up the debased mess that software patents have turned into:
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SoftwarePatent.html
The closing quote from The Economist is especially to the point:
"At a time when our future affluence depends so heavily on innovation, we have drifted toward a patent regime that not only fails to fulfil its justifying function, to incentivise innovation, but actively impedes innovation."
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