yeah it's ridiculous. i.e. you just used the term "software" on the internet, if we applied the patent law for software to that, you'd be found guilty of infri

yeah it's ridiculous. i.e. you just used the term "software" on the internet, if we applied the patent law for software to that, you'd be found guilty of infringing. what I'd like to see is a community effort by programmers to create an arbitration process that bypasses the court system. Software disputes should be judged by those who actually know the topic, instead of some judge who has to rely on "expert" testimony that get paid by the patent trolls