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It will take a lot more than that, especially when it comes to educating other people. There are millions of new engineers entering the workforce every year, and that number is only going to grow. Most haven't yet learned about the problems software patents can cause.


It is the senior engineers that are normally being asked to patent what they've "invented". Also, there are not millions of new software engineers every year, maybe 10s of thousands. There are only a few million programmers in the whole world.




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