Is their ever going to be an end... (Score 1)

to all this patent nonsense. The software industry is so stifled by all this crap. And it's almost a necessity now. If a company didn't patent it's technology it's at a disadvantage from those companies that do. It allows competitors to both use their technology freely while at the same time leveraging their own patents to stop the company using the competitors technology. Guess it will take either a law change or some ballsy stance by a big player in the patent game to stop taking out patents...I'd vote the former will happen a long time before the latter.