I don't know, do they?
There's an important difference between patenting something that you've invented and built, and a patent troll which has done neither.
There's an important difference between patenting something that you've invented and built, and a patent troll which has done neither.
Tech patents exist because companies like Clouldflare want to because they make money with them (suing people). If companies like Cloudfare did want all tech patents to be gone, they would be gone and no patent troll would be able to do anything about.
And they try lure you with $5.000 to do the work to get them off the hook? They are cheap and bunch hypocrites.
Also, your reasoning seems to leave out a world of possibilities for why someone would hold a patent - its worth looking up the thinking around defensive patent portfolios.
These exist for a few reasons.... patents might be strategically filed to:
* have prior art on the record to keep a market open... e.g. preventing a competitor from monopolizing a space.
* have patents available for counter-suit against competitors suing over patent violation of some bit of tech that uses both.
* impress investors
* provide recognition to employees. At least in the US patents are filed by individuals, and the rights of the patent are then assigned to the company. Granted patents usually come with bonuses, as well as a nice resume padding that helps the engineers involved get higher salaries in the future.