You hear this kind of thing from that patent bar and the lobbying and public relations groups at Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM.
Unfortunately the computer programming profession and startup scene, being made up of smart, quirky, introverted people, has no pull whatsoever with the national media or the political class in Washington. I don't know if they don't know or just don't care that we're so overwhelmingly and thoroughly opposed to the damage patents do to our industry. They appear to be willfully ignorant that there are no examples of software patents that actually promote innovation, since they write stories without even asking for one.
