
I've been sitting on this item all day. Technically, it's about patents and the like, and even I understand I've been beating this dead horse so often it almost looks like it's alive. However, this is
an interesting opinion piece by Craig Hockenberry, long-time employee at
The Iconfactory, one of my favourite software development houses - these guys breath software and beautiful design, and employ one of my favourite artists,
David Lanham. The gist of his story? Software patents are killing the independent developer scene.