DaveNet: "The hype was that software patents are good for innovation. 'They protect the little guy from big predators,' say the advocates. Wrong. The little guys don't have time to file patents. A little guy is worried about making payroll at the end of the month, not the three-plus years it takes from filing to approval of a patent." I was talking to some people from large companies a while back about our business situation, and one of them thought we obviously needed to be filing patents because that was the only way we were going to get more funding. I told him basically what Dave is saying here. Even if I felt that getting patents was a right and just thing to do, we simply don't have the luxury to spend precious time doing that.