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The America Invents Act, a patent bill which ultimately contained little of the reform the tech sector was looking for, took around seven years of lobbying and negotiation to get passed, Walker noted.

"It is politically challenging to start drawing hard lines between different sectors," said Walker. In Congress, politicians "have constituencies that resist the notion of trying to move away from a unitary patent system, into what they call silos."

An appeal for abolition, 20 years in

After his morning talk, Stallman drifted to the back of the room, focusing studiously on his small white laptop sporting a sticker of the GNU logo (which is, well, a gnu.) Apart from the afternoon outburst, he mostly worked silently, furrowing his brow, seeming oblivious to anything around him and the other speakers on stage.

I first started to understand the appeal of Stallman when I heard him speak a