The knee-jerk reaction is running to the government to try to make whatever you don't like illegal. Which is getting more and more common. On college campuses it's getting more common for kids to call the police when they see something that offends them, including speech that offends them. They just assume that they have a right to a higher government power to make illegal whatever is bad in the world. That is the knee jerk reaction here.

The idea that software patterns can be made illegal is just absurd, and goes against the early vision of the free software movement which recognized the most important thing was the freedom to write software, rather than the freedom to get a job writing exactly the software you think you should be writing, and the right to throw employers in jail if they fire you for not doing what you're told on the job.