[AndyTheBear]

If you invent it to a level where your patent application provides compete instructions on how your invention can be implemented to cure cancer, then you will deserve your patent, and deserve your billions, and deserve the thanks of a grateful world. What's the problem with that?

<sarcasm>But I want money for just having the idea of a flying car and of curing cancer. They are big ideas!</sarcasm>

But as I had said (before you obliged me to be silly to make a point) big ideas are a dime a dozen. I think we both agree that detailed not obvious plans that contribute to success should be rewarded, but I just don't think that "software" companies that have more lawyers then engineers are into that business.

[Atlas Sneezed]

big ideas are a dime a dozen

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And people who actually read and understand patents (as opposed to trusting business writers) know that such ideas are unpatentable.