I keep hoping that the patent office will wake up and realize that software patents are a bad idea. Some of the ones floating out there are just ludicrous. For instance, Microsoft has a patent on deleting files...That's obviously unenforceable, but it's a pretty good example of how broad the things are. Right now it's basically impossible to create a new video codec without violating some patent.
-----Original Message----- From: denstar [mailto:valliants...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:03 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Facetime for Mac... Thankfully, Apple isn't *that* powerful. *Yet*. That is a big *yet* tho. Some of these patents Apple is filing for are *scary*. The whole attitude is scary, really. That grumpygamer blog post says some of this in a nice way. :Den -- We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. Friedrich Nietzsche ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329707 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
