Z:gnu-www-ja-danger-of-software-patents--16ca50-At the other end of the spectr/en

At the other end of the spectrum is software, where we can combine more ideas into one usable design than anybody else, because our field is basically easier than all other fields. I'm presuming that the intelligence of people in our field is the same as that of people in physical engineering. It's not that we're fundamentally better than they are; it's that our field is fundamentally easier, because we're working with mathematics.