Software Patents; The Roots of the Present Branches.

L² (Lawrence Lessig) mentions in his entry from insight to action that there's documentation on Software patents on what Bill Gates had said. Paraphrased, software patents create a barrier for entry for smaller businesses.

Then he points at this article; Factory of the Future? - which goes along with quite a few Scientific America articles and others out there.

While celebrating 'Intellectual property', we're celebrating the demise of Intellectual Usability - and in doing so, what are we doing?

I don't want this.