Amazing. That fact, alone, discredits software patents. For patents to have any social value, they must be protecting intellectual property that is difficult to

Amazing. That fact, alone, discredits software patents. For patents to have any social value, they must be protecting intellectual property that is difficult to reproduce. The assertion here is the reverse: in software, implementation, after description of the function, is so easy it does not merit description. If it is so, then software requires no patent protection in the first place.