Z:gnu-www-ja-danger-of-software-patents--c3875f-You are confusing patents with/en

You are confusing patents with copyrights, I'm afraid. They have nothing in common. I've explained to you what the patent system does to software, but I think you don't believe me because you've heard what copyrights do and you're confusing the two, so these impressions you've got about what copyrights do, you're just assuming that patents do them also&mdash;and they don't. If you write some code, the copyright on that code would belong to you; but if your code implements ideas, if some of these ideas are patented, those patents belong to others who could then sue you.