What IP would they want badly enough to buy a whole company for? I can't find anything on this.

This could actually be good for open source, if company's are providing support through forums, then people will be used to this model when using open source without any "official" support.

Someone please write something to do this, it wouldn't be too hard in python.

Take off eh!

Killing them is a nearsighted solution. If you kill some of them,there will be more resources for those that are left, which cause another increase in populqtion puttinyg us right back where we started. And the idea if letting a bunch of shotgun-totting hicks go hunting within blocks of: our parliament, the residence of the prime minister, and many foreign embassy's, seems like a bad idea.