Comment Re:Just a few things (Score 1) 253
| The number of devices/programs you can actually create without running smack into someone's fool patent is very near zero.
The biggest problem is not that patents exisit, but that patents are granted for overly broad ideas for which the inventor nary needs to provide an application. People and companies would patent "1+1=2" as "A system to represent quantaties relationally" (and it would be granted) if it were concieved of in the last ten years, but this concept is so basic and fundamental to everything... imagine if you had to use a license to use addition, that is the state of the US Patent System.
The biggest problem is not that patents exisit, but that patents are granted for overly broad ideas for which the inventor nary needs to provide an application. People and companies would patent "1+1=2" as "A system to represent quantaties relationally" (and it would be granted) if it were concieved of in the last ten years, but this concept is so basic and fundamental to everything... imagine if you had to use a license to use addition, that is the state of the US Patent System.
