Microsoft has been awarded patent 6,748,582. This time it covers the TODO list generated from user comments in their developer studio. Now we are stuck with the question of how to slow down the commercialization of vague ideas. Open source is going to run into a problem when it can't write new software without owing somebody royalties for something. My first thought was a can't-beat-em-join-em type of approach. Lets get a bunch of people patenting stuff and promising never to cash in. N
You know, Callahan's is a peaceable bar, but if you ask that dog what his favorite formatter is, and he says "roff! roff!", well, I'll just have to...
