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However, fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitos will eliminate malaria. You cannot expect to defeat every patent that comes at you, any more than you can expect to kill every monster in a video game: sooner or later, one is going to defeat you and damage your program. The US patent office issues around a hundred thousand software patents each year; our best efforts could never clear these mines as fast as they plant more.