Yostivanich

Not so many years ago, even as I was filled with fear and loathing of the hideous mis­con­duct of the US Patent & Trade­mark Office, I retained some respect for the notion of patents. I even wrote what I think is an unusu­ally easy-to-read intro­duc­tion to Patent The­ory. But no more. The whole thing is too bro­ken to be fixed. Maybe it worked once, but it doesn’t any more. The patent sys­tem needs to be torn down and thrown out.

via ongo­ing by Tim Bray · Giv­ing Up On Patents. Oh patents the more I hear the more I hate.

There are a few orga­ni­za­tions I rec­om­mend if you wish to try and help elim­i­nate bad patents.

• EFF: Patent Bust­ing Project
• End Soft­ware Patents
• The Peer to Patent Project