<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VanL</author><text>Hi! I&amp;#x27;m the author of this chapter of the casebook. I didn&amp;#x27;t expect it to show up here, but I&amp;#x27;m happy to answer questions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases</title><url>https://google.github.io/opencasebook/patents/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>corroclaro</author><text>Sometimes I am grateful that I live in Europe where software patents are &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a thing.&lt;p&gt;Ish. A shame the US courts chose to interpret the laws as licensing software patents.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases</title><url>https://google.github.io/opencasebook/patents/</url></story>