Our "idea" legal structure (patents, copyrights, etc) is not about ideas at all. Its about commerce. All that matters is implementation in a manner that incre

Our "idea" legal structure (patents, copyrights, etc) is not about ideas at all. Its about commerce. All that matters is implementation in a manner that increases money exchange. Everything is optimized around that, or is supposed to be. An idea itself is of little value. If it were, the really hard stuff, like math itself, would be patentable.