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Software patents ARE on ideas

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 03:11 PM EDT

Virtually every software patent spells out a long set of related ideas which are
supposedly claimed by the patent.

They dress it up with the proper legalese to let it masquerade as an
"invention". But they don't cover actual inventions, they just cover
mathematical ideas.

They aim to be as broad as possible, so as to prevent ANYONE from using a
similar idea without paying the idea tax.

Patents aren't SUPPOSED to cover ideas, they are supposed to cover concrete
inventions.

But all software patents just cover insubstantial, abstract things: ideas,
algorithms, mathematical calculations.

It's ridiculous. The lawyers have led us into a ridiculous, costly, pointless,
expensive quagmire that doesn't benefit ANYONE but the lawyers. We should
completely abolish software patents -- that would be 10x as beneficial as any
possible tweak to the existing patent system could be.

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