On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:14:08 -0400, Warp wrote:

> ... and neither the concept of "too trivial to patent".
> 
> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7415666.html
> 
>   What makes this patent ludicrous is that it patents exactly what the
> page up and page down buttons were created for in the first place.
> 
>   (I wonder when this was used for the first time in software. My bet
> is that at least in the early 1980's, if not earlier.)

This is only surprising you now?  It's surprised many here in the US for 
*years*.

Jim

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