[AlbertCory]

On further reflection, I see your point: the "context" was drug patents & their necessity, or lack of it, for drug development.

You have to admit that that is, itself, out of context for the original post, which is strictly about software patents. But yeah, at that point it had morphed into something else.

[hatefulmoron]

Fair enough, it's only tangentially related. I was more interested in replying to what the other person said.