Google and Facebook join forces against software patents (The H)

This request, for all the common sense and decency it embodies, will be ignored. It will be ignored for the same reason that mercifully begging a rapist not to rape you does not work -- because those being groveled to are far too corrupt to listen to common sense and decency. You know it, I know it.

Let me know if I was wrong in two years' time.