Is there any other country in this beautiful world that encourages lunacy like this? I mean, patenting a specific engine design is fine by me. But that would b

Is there any other country in this beautiful world that encourages lunacy like this? I mean, patenting a specific engine design is fine by me. But that would be equivalent to patenting the source code structure of Spotlight, which no one can see anyway. How did we get to the point where we now have patents not for implementations but for interfaces? I wonder how much money is wasted every year on disputes like this. How much time is wasted on it. How many lives are getting wasted on it! Software does not have visible physical implementations like engines do. Software consists of ideas, written down so computers can execute them. Software really only exists in the mind, it has no physical reality. If you patent software, you patent cell patterns in some brain. If you sue someone for that, you are claiming ownership of some programmers brain tissue! It will be a fine day when we programmers can legally own our own brains again. It will be a day worthy of great celebration! Until then, american minds must keep their head down lest someone wants to rip their brains out, which is a sad thing indeed.