> People love to cite drugs as being a case where patents work well. But patents are far from a perfect fit for this problem.

Bringing drugs in the discussion has more of a relative role than any absolute metric though. We could subsume the reasoning as such though:

    - patents work better on drugs than on software by leaps and bounds
    - patents are far from a perfect fit for drugs
    - it follows that software patents are an atrocity of abysmal scale