Bad assumptions. Patents are made more general by patent lawyers They do this because the market tries to circumvent ever paying patent licenses or anybody el

Bad assumptions. Patents are made more general by patent lawyers They do this because the market tries to circumvent ever paying patent licenses or anybody else’s IP This is more pronounced in software due to the short time span of relevancy coupled with the narrow outcome of the protocol ratification process (ie there is no market if you deviate from protocols like tcp/ip) People want to be compensated for their ideas in exchange for publicly disclosing them