Warp wrote:
>   Now we only have about 10 million other software patents to worry about.

Yep. But as I said, I think the problem is not so much that they're 
"software" as that they get argued to mean things entirely outside the scope 
of what they're talking about.

> I think some software companies (at least in the US) have dedicated people
> whose only purpose is to research whether the company is breaking some
> software patents. And it's a full-time job.

Are you kidding? There are entire companies who do nothing but buy patents 
and then go sue people over them. They're called "patent trolls". :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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