I hope you realize (it was even indicated) that the post was SATIRE. The poster was obviously referencing the whole "debate" over intellectual property (all the patent lawsuits). A poster there made the argument that if no one uses their patents for 2 years they should lose the right to have the patent. This poster was adjusting the reply to fit this scenario.
Well, the difference between patents on one side and copyright or land ownership on the other side is that copyright and land ownership stop me from stealing _your_ property, they don't stop me from writing similar software, and they wouldn't have stopped Apple from building their data centre somewhere else.
Patents do just that: They give the patent holder rights even when someone else re-invents the same thing and doesn't even know about the patents. And especially with software patents, the actual value in a software patent when measured in development time saved by the licensor is usually zero. Below zero if you take into account that people have to spend time making sure something they just developed is not patented by someone. The only value in patents is their value as a blackmail tool or as a tool to stop competitors. The benefits of software patents for the society are less than zero.