Software patents are stooooopid!
It’s no different than patenting a plot line for a novel, i.e. If in your novel the Butler did it! Then you get sued because someone else used that idea before...STUPID!
Software is not at all like hardware.
Most software ideas are simply obvious...it’s like trying to patent common sense.
I would disagree... sort of.
Software patents I don’t have a problem with - when someone comes up with a truly unique software product/method/means that has not previously been used conceived... I don’t have a problem. But when a patent is granted for software function that has been a common process or function for many years prior to the patent being issued - that is a problem.