I honestly disagree with your stance against patents, disregarding dull patents and the issues they bring like patent trolls, I really believe that the industry needs patents to prevent unfair competition.<p>The issue is the length of patents, the Software industry doesn&#x27;t need 20 year-long patents, it&#x27;s too much time, at most a patent should be valid for 5 years...<p>And well, we also need mechanisms to punish people who abuse the patent system with dull patents.