The Republicans' triumph in last year's mid-terms was seen by many as an instruction from the electorate to hackaway at America's sprawling government.
That said, the company is being smart and releasing a software development kit to encourage outsiders to hackaway at new, creative uses for different smells.
In general, composition-of-matter lawsuits are considered harder to win than other avenues of attack employed by generic drugmakers to hackaway at the thicket of patents that guard blockbuster medicines.
The tea partiers who want to hackaway at defense as much as they do at earmarks are going to fracture the GOP coalition in Congress that still contains more than a few defense hawks.