More Trolls

Patent Trolls this time. The Patent Prospector pontificates on human nature:

No system is perfect; after all, we're filthy earth monkeys with abstract thinking capacities, but the moral fiber of rattlesnakes.

And then he smears the name of one of America's most famous heroes:

The world's most prolific patent troll was Thomas Edison, who never made products, but snagged 1,093 patents, and whose cantankerousness befits his title of "King of the Patent Trolls". For example, at a time when America's electrical system was in the process of being decided, Edison invented the electric chair to discredit alternating current as dangerous. AC electricity was being promoted by rival George Westinghouse, while Edison was pushing DC. Westinghouse won that battle, and thanks to that, America's prisons have had the ready facility to fry prisoners in Edison's hot seat.

Mix patents, contentious patent holders, lawyers and money, and things are just naturally going to get ugly. Note that nobody ever fights about patents for things that aren't making someone a lot of money.