From time to time, some find it contradictory or even hypocritical that, for instance, an opponent of patents is a patent lawyer. But, as Martin Fink, HP's vice president of Linux says, "At the end of the day, software patents are a way of life. To ignore them is a little bit naive." It's fine to object to software patents, but it's foolhardy not to try to acquire them, he said. Thanks to Patentability.
