I feel uncomfortable with this. What's it actually achieving?<p>We dig oil out of the ground, transport it to land, turn it into plastic, ship that to manufacturers, turn it into troll dolls, ship those to suppliers, ship them to retailers, ship them to customers, ship them to the patent troll, send it to landfill. (Or, if they have any sense, some children's charity with a matching donation.)<p>All through this chain that are a bunch of people paid low wages to shift product just for some stunt. I'm not opposed to stunts, I just don't think this is a good stunt.<p>Instead, show what patent trolls actually stop people doing, and say why it's bad that these things have been stopped. (Single handed keyboards are one example.)<p>And if you're counting bang for buck, $9 can possibly save 18 lives. Oral Rehydration Salts and zinc cost $0.5 per course, and could prevent about 3/4 of the 1.5 million child deaths from diarrhoea.<p><a href="http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94996/GLOBAL-Follow-the-fizz-save-a-life" rel="nofollow">http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94996/GLOBAL-Follow-the-fizz-...</a>