Why are you not blaming Google? If Google was not trying to extort patents for profit, they could permit everyone free access to their patents. They have chosen not to do so. (Their patent pledge includes a tiny portion of their patents which are not substantial in any common patent litigation. Now we know why.)

Google has purchased an incredible number of patents, and is now leveraging them for profit. They are not in a morally higher ground than Intellectual Ventures if they continue with this service.