If they took out software patents, you'd probably see an explosion in work on some rather interesting fields that have been halted completely. Wavelets, for instance, would no longer be a minefield. And there would be considerably less hesitation towards accepting the Mono project into various and sundry Gnome things.
They're maemo and MeeGo... "Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...