Or just don't protect trade secrets (the entire point of patents is that trade secrets are harmful to society), and require all software to come with source, the right to have someone change/fix it for you, and the right to share your changes/fixes under a right-to-repair umbrella. Maybe retain a limited (e.g. ~5 year) distribution monopoly on the original (so you could distribute patches but not the full thing).

Source is less important with LLMs now, but it's wasteful and destructive to the planet to have everyone need to use them to reverse engineer things for no reason.

An economy built around not making knowledge prolific is obviously a bad, inefficient idea, and in the end will be our downfall.

> Or just don't protect trade secrets (the entire point of patents is that trade secrets are harmful to society), and require all software to come with source,

That would infringe upon my freedom as a creator of software. No thanks.

So you're saying you strongly support software patents?