I don't have a good sense of Myrvhold's overall stance or intention, but I was dismayed to find Neal Stephenson heavily involved in IV. Perhaps only to cure my cognitive dissonance, it occurred to me recently that perhaps IV is performing a grand reductio ad absurdum attack on software patents.
i.e. accumulate a patent army and then declare total economic war, forcing USPTO / FTC to intervene and prevent abuse
i.e. accumulate a patent army and then declare total economic war, forcing USPTO / FTC to intervene and prevent abuse