I’m more ticked about the patent itself. It doesn’t matter who the company is—the patent should never have been filed.
There should not be any such thing as a software patent at all.
You’re right about that. They are using the patent to claim control over internet web sites that use HTML5. Of course XHTML was supposed to become the standard but these things are hard to control, can’t be forced on site owners, and legacy sites are not likely convert unless they absolutely have to. Jobs is a control freak who repeatedly displays his democrat party genetics.
Didn’t Lotus start this nonsense about software patents with their “Look and Feel” patent back in the 90s? Experts were opposed to it then and now it’s coming back to haunt everyone.