Honestly people that believe that no one will steal your idea are frankly naive. People always point to patent trolls and want to get rid of all patents but can

Honestly people that believe that no one will steal your idea are frankly naive. People always point to patent trolls and want to get rid of all patents but cannot fathom reform. Yet this notion benefits the big fish in the market disproportionately to the everyday programmer/startup. IMO there should be narrow specific patents that are cheap and for the everyday programmer's startup and only for a short time like 6 months. They would not own the 'idea' but rather the rights to a commercial application of this 'idea' within a given time period. Patents could protect startups too if the system is reformed