Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111094923390
>>
>>   If the US patent office was capable of actually checking for obvious
>> prior art, then *maybe* one could perhaps accept software patents. As it
>> is, it's just crazy.
>>
>>   (And no, having a graphical sudo is not innovative. Many systems have
>> had automatic graphical sudos for a long, long time, including eg. Suse
>> Linux.)
> 
> The Optimus keyboard website still says "patents pending". There is not only 
> prior art but also a prior *patent* (filed a decade ago) about a keyboard 
> with screens on each key.
> 
> And last year, Apple filed a patent for such a keyboard. Despite Optimus 
> being produced and sold already.
> 
They still search these things using filing cabinets and punch cards 
don't they? Seriously, how the frack hard would it be to, at minimum, 
develop a computer DB and semi-smart AI that could catch even 50% of 
this stuff, freeing up people to look at the 50% it didn't?

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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