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by jacques_chester 4709 days ago
> The "crappy software patents" view is common mostly because tech media routinely publishes uninformed (or disinformed? [4]) rhetoric, mostly because they garner some easy rageviews, and audiences accept it without critical thought.

"Inventive patent filed covering obscure corner of programming" is not going to garner pageviews, for the same reason that "Grandmother walks home safe from 1000th time without being assaulted by ne'er-do-wells" doesn't appear on any newspaper outside The Onion.