I know lots of people here don't have a lot of love for patents the coathanger is the kind of case that patents were intened for. software patents are differe

I know lots of people here don't have a lot of love for patents the coathanger is the kind of case that patents were intened for. software patents are different. as far as i am aware most people dislike software patents specifically and are fine with other patents. and even with software patents the problem is not the idea of patenting software, but the broad scope and timeframe. for software 20 years are just to long, and many patents are to broad. if software patents could be reduced in scope and more importantly reduced to a lifetime of eg no more than 5 years, they would be much less of a problem.