Ask HN: Will we ever do something about patent trolls?

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Some of you may have seen a project like Mycroft AI (nothing to do with LLMs!) from back in around 2017 or so, it was an open source Alexa alternative, even had skills and everything. I kept wondering why it quietly disappeared, and the repo was archived. Turns out a patent troll hit them hard, drained them of all their funds in court, till they shut down. https://patentprogress.org/2024/05/another-startup-bites-the-dust-courtesy-of-patent-trolls/ https:/&#