It remains far too easy for patent trolls to extort and exploit people for creating or using software. This is how EFF fought back this year. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/fighting-progress-patents-2024-review
@eff This takes me back to the early days of Linux when Microsoft used constant threats of patent lawsuits (FUD) over two or three lines of code to try and stifle open source growth.