[NotQuiteCricket]

umn. Probably not. Patents are important. I'm just not sure about patents for software, or business processes. A patent on a thing and the way that thing works I can get behind, but software? Hum. Why can't I patent a plot line then? (ignoring prior art)

[Grut]

A patent on a thing and the way that thing works I can get behind, but software?

A program is a machine, just one that works only in the particular environment of a computer... like a boat works on water and nowhere else.