[mcantelon]

>And yes, there are some who will argue that there are no “worthy patents”, that the entire U.S. patent system should be simply abolished.

I like how Gruber conflates patents in general with software patents: as if you can't have one without the other.

[stanleydrew]

I noticed this too. I don't read Gruber regularly but he seems to be either very careless or wilfully misleading in the way that he conflates concepts.