"Intellectual Property" is a fiction and the term shouldn't be used. It helps perpetuate the confusion we see these days, where people don't know the difference between patent, copyright and trademark. The big difference here is that copyright doesn't require that the work be non-obvious, just original, so of course any original software can be copyrighted.The sentences qualifying the original sentence limit and explain his position.
That's just one example of his disdain for intellectual property, he's been defending leftist whacko Richard Stallman's "copyleft" theories and arguing against software patents for years on here. His new claim he now suddenly supports software patents and doesn't attack copyright protections like DRM are absurd, are you somehow forgetting he has outright admitted to knowingly lying for months in defense of Russian hackers who illegally cracked Apple's OSX operating system? You are actually wanting to go on record and defend him for that, and claim he doesn't have an easily linkable history of disdain for IP and copyright?