Fiat currency, like software copyright lawsuits and copyright law itself, will become more and more a farcical affair as we move further and further into the information age.
Not to derail the topic but don't you mean software patents? Copyrighting software is pretty useless because it would be very difficult to enforce - e.g. the copier could just change variable names in the code and the copyright would be unenforceable.As a holder of several software patents, some of which I've assigned and some of which I still own, I have mixed feelings about the whole patent situation. Owning an earlier issued patent certainly saved my bacon when somebody else tried to sue me for infringement of a somewhat similar patent that they owned.
No, I think that was his point exactly. (bolded above)
