Z:gnu-www-ja-limit-patent-effect--e09a88-If half of those patents were/en

If half of those patents were eliminated as &ldquo;bad quality&rdquo;&mdash;mistakes of the patent system, that is&mdash;it would not really change things. Whether 100,000 patents or 50,000, it's the same disaster. This is why it's a mistake to limit our criticism of software patents to just &ldquo;patent trolls&rdquo; or &ldquo;bad quality&rdquo; patents. The worst patent aggressor today is Apple, which isn't a &ldquo;troll&rdquo; by the usual definition; I don't know whether Apple's patents are &ldquo;good quality&rdquo;, but the better the patent's &ldquo;quality&rdquo; the more dangerous its threat.