This is great. Makes me proud to be a Rackspace customer.
> While nothing short of eliminating software patents will satisfy us [...]
This seems to be a surprisingly mainstream view in the (software) tech world. I've yet to hear an argument for total abolition that addresses the impact of such a change outside of software tech realm. For all the bad the patent system does, I'm glad that medical breakthroughs are disclosed and protected (for a limited period) rather than locked up a la the Coca Cola recipe.
The generally held view is that software patents should be abolished, not that patents in general should be abolished. As such, the reason you don't see arguments that address the changes outside the software world is because most people are't arguing that there should be changes outside the software world.
> While nothing short of eliminating software patents will satisfy us [...]
This seems to be a surprisingly mainstream view in the (software) tech world. I've yet to hear an argument for total abolition that addresses the impact of such a change outside of software tech realm. For all the bad the patent system does, I'm glad that medical breakthroughs are disclosed and protected (for a limited period) rather than locked up a la the Coca Cola recipe.