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Ideas can be patentable and overtly complex ones should be, but far too many people (and companies) believe that their idea is something that has never been thought of before by all of mankind, and they have the tactics and cash to prevent progress by others to secure income -- not to mention that prior art is MUCH harder to prove than it seems.
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I grant you that, and I mentioned the problems in my post. Denigrating a concept because its implementation has become flawed is somewhat akin to throwing the baby out with the bath water. There is a high probability that if you should bust your ass over a truly new idea that offers rewarding commercial success, you will wish you could patent it.
All good ideas are intellectual property -- what else would they be? I'll give you credit for rational, if perhaps not all-pervasive, thought and expression, at least. Far too many of the detractors are just wind chimes blowing in the breeze of blather.