We need to fix or eliminate this whole software patent thing as done by the USPTO. The whole notion of granting ownership over an idea such that it allows you t

We need to fix or eliminate this whole software patent thing as done by the USPTO. The whole notion of granting ownership over an idea such that it allows you to charge others rent for "using" that idea, and of granting ownership over some particular application permutation to whoever is the first one to submit a patent application on it to some particular office full of bureaucrats, is absurd. This is just the latest farce.