[alexander_busek]

This speaks more about how, nowadays, you can patent almost any silly little technical detail.

Regards,

[woofie]

My thoughts exactly

[Jim from C-Town]

Exactly! The patenting of code is nonsense. It should be copy write.

All the new patents are nothing more than magnets for patent trolls.

[9thLife]

True. Pretty much everyone knows someone who holds a patent.

Heck, the president even has a Nobel.

And where there was once only one in any town, now there's a Mercedes or a Beemer in ever other driveway.

Furthermore, remember when people used to out for a burger or maybe a steak and some Italian food if it was a big deal? Now people order Chilean Sea Bass for lunch; insist upon being able to choose from 5 or 6 different kinds of "greens" for their salads, and basically won't order anything with a name that's less than 3 syllables long.