Z:gnu-www-ja-danger-of-software-patents--202544-If you write a work and this w/en

If you write a work and this work embodies some ideas, which it always does, there's no reason to think that the patents covering those ideas would belong to you. They're more likely to belong to lots of others, and half of them to the megacorporations, and they can then all sue you. So you don't even have to worry [about plagiarism]; long before you get to the point where somebody else might copy it, you're going to be getting the shaft.