Patents explained...
Hmmm....
I just read this cnet story about Eolas suing Microsoft, amongst others, for using what appears to be "AJAX"...
What the f@#%!
Let me try to explain US patents, as I have come to understand them recently...
I will try to do this using an analogy:
You are building a house...
Somebody sees this and while you are away, takes a shit in your toilet, while documenting it thoroughly...
And from now on... You'll have to pay this jerk, every time you have to take a shit...
After all... He can prove, he was the first one to take a shit in your toilet!!!
Seriously!
This is what the entire Eoala vs. Microsoft and other are all about!
Microsoft build a browser, with some function and enterpreters (i.e. you can shit in it and flush).
Then some idiot comes along and proves that it works... Now he wants Microsoft to for it!?!?!?
What beats me the most, though... Is that this can happen in the US... I mean... They're the once that makes it o.k. to shoot someone who invades your private property... Think about it!..
Shouldn't it be o.k. for Microsoft to shoot somebody here???
Well enough about that... Just had to get this out of my head! ;-)
