Hey guys, all it takes is a simple email, and they provide the address on the webpage. They also provide a form email. I wrote my own: I believe software pat

Hey guys, all it takes is a simple email, and they provide the address on the webpage. They also provide a form email. I wrote my own: I believe software patents have deleterious effects on both an individual and societal level. As a software developer, my job is to encode symbols within a computer. Simply to represent an idea in the precise medium. Then I manipulate those symbols in whichever way seems logical. To patent that process, to claim certain methods of writing and thinking are off limits, does not contribute to a free society, no matter how much money it allows an entity to make. Because a computer is only a tool for the mind, as a hammer is an extension of the arm. Patenting patterns of codified thought makes no more sense than patenting swings of the hammer.