Response to Edit2: You are right here too. Just that not thinking through brings a risk of making wrong decisions, which I think could be the case in this cas

Response to Edit2: You are right here too. Just that not thinking through brings a risk of making wrong decisions, which I think could be the case in this case. I am not 100% convinced that software patents should be abolished without understanding the criteria on the basis of which they should be (which may then apply to other fields also, but may not).