Comment Re:First of the many bogus patents by Google (Score 1) 167
The problems is that all those patents are "functional patents", that means that they patent a function not a mean or a method to do it; those are in fact just ideas. As long as the patent office continue to accept such kind of patents without asking for the mean or the algorithm to do it, very obvious and broard patents will continue to split thorough the system. Some people are pushing to halt this but as long as the situation continues this way the software industry is in big trouble.