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He may be a nice enough guy, but how can you possibly justify what he does with IV? I doubt he's an evil person, but what he does with patents is very plainly evil.
In his own words: "The patent system exists to give economic incentive to create inventions -- not products. After all, profit is the incentive to create and sell products. In order to have a level playing field, inventors must have a full set of rights, regardless of whether they are big or little, or whether they make products or just invent. Those rights are what give them the incentive to work long and hard on ne…
The simple fact is that IV is a patent troll. They are the very definition of what that term means and that makes them a force for evil in the world. They are a parasite on the technology world. They exploit a broken system for profit.
Just like anyone doing evil they can lie to themselves about it and tell you the story they tell themselves about their motivations. Just ask any Wall Street jagoff if he thinks he's doing bad things and he'll explain that he's actually helping the world, by "providing liquidity" and "ensuring a fair market value" -- in reality he spends most of his day looking for exploits in our financial system to make himself rich.