This won't really help matters, but it is certainly something I wish I'd thought of a decade ago. Alan Cox, a developer working for Red Hat, has filed a patent on software DRM. Red Hat's patent policy indicates that, if granted, such a patent would be used to defend open-source software rather than licensed to businesses.
Microsoft is surely not quaking in its boots, even if this isn't refused due to copious prior art.
Still, it makes you wonder about all the horrible things Big Software is waiting to do with our lovely computers. It sure would be nice to use our broken patent system to start patenting some of that future-evil today.
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