7/23    InterTrust vs. M$:
        http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,466180,00.html
        \_ oh f*cking please.  i suppose anyone who uses encryption is
           in violation too.  this is about as frivolous as patenting linked
           lists.
           \_ Aren't linked lists copyrighted by Dr. McCarthy?
           \_ oh f*cking please.  go learn what a patent is and how it gets
              enforced and come back.  you sound like a slashdotter with the
              standard ignorant "i just patented bad patents!!!!". this gross
              lack of understanding has been explained and corrected here and
              at /. numerous times to no avail.  go read an archive.
              \_ and your point is?
                 \_ you're right.  it's the motd.  i should have come to expect
                    this sort of unbreakable ignorance.
              \_ obviously someone living off his patents
                 \_ no but if I was I'd have earned it. and even if I was that
                    doesn't make what I said any less valid.  personal assault
                    doesn't win points.  the next time you invent something
                    worth more than a buck, lemme know.  I'll gladly take that
                    mean nasty worthless IP off your hands.