Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 15th May 2004 08:23 UTC
It is when I read articles like this that I have "my blood all going up to my head" (that's a Greek saying for people that get angry). So apparently, Apple is trying to patent "transparent windows that do a certain action after fading away". While I don't personally find this "innovation/invention" patentable, it's fine with me: Apple is doing the best it can to secure its business (maybe I would do the same if I had shareholders on my back).
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What's really ironic about this is many corporations get out of paying taxes or don't pay much and so when one frivolous lawsuit after another goes to court it's yours and my tax dollars being squandered on it time after time.
Alot of people are saying if this could be done right, if we could rely on the corporations to be reasonable...some of them will, but a whole lot won't. Baystar's pressuring of SCO to basically stop making Unixware and concentrate on lawsuits shows just how far it's gotten out of hand. A company who's only purpose is lawsuits? How could it have ever come to that?
If there's a moral here, it's that the more they tighten the screws on software, the more piracy, bootlegs, and even game companies getting cracked for their source code. All of this will get much worse before it gets better. But I have simple solution for some of these people problems...afraid of software getting ripped off, don't make software. Get into another business.