[arethuza]

This was a while ago (about 10 years) and I only had a vague idea that patents were a bad idea from a practical perspective - I was mainly motivated to try and avoid doing them because it was a huge amount of work, I hate reading "legalese" and I thought there were better things I could be doing.

So my objections were mainly selfish rather than principled. I like to think these days I would act on principle...