I like what Larry Ellison is doing.  I like what Paul Allen is doing.  I think they’re actually looking beyond these lawsuits.  They’re forcing us to look at the software patent system as a whole, by bringing these lawsuits.  They have the money and exposure to really force the issue.

Hopefully all the other billionaires out there will follow suit.  Ideally all of them would sue every business for every patent infringement out there.  Hopefully this will help the industry and congress come to the collective agreement that system is broken and that we finally need to DO something about it, instead of sitting around complaining about it!

So please, please, all the billionaires out there, continue to buy up patents, continue to troll, and continue to prove how silly this system really is.