EFF Takes Aim at Bogus Online Gaming Patent

We have a terribly broken patent system, and it wouldn't be a stretch to believe a lot of it
is because of corruption, incompetence, overwork, or any and all of the above.  Until that's
fixed at least to some degree, I can see no way that opponents of software patents are left
with much other than knee-jerk reactions.  It's as if I were invitied into an apartment that
was a complete pig-sty and someone pointed out to me that there was a McDonald's cup left on
top of the TV set.

In fact, now that I think about it, "objective" or "accurate" or "balanced" opinions about
patents at this time in our history would probably be interpreted, by their supporters, as
evidence the system might *not* be broken.  Much as Microsoft bigots got all happy and "ya
see-ya see!" whenever I used to say I thought Microsoft Access was pretty near the greatest
program I ever used, overall.