Pardon me but I may be an idiot. (Score 1)

Allright I would like to state before hand that I'm more than likely an idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about. If you feel that this is the case I welcome any corrections and/or flames. I don't have a problem with lawyers suing the the everliving crap out of anything that moves in an attempt to make as much money as possible. I have always been in favor of 6 digit bank accounts. My problem is the things that they are suing over. I don't know how amazons system works but I just cannot see any logical way that someone can say, "We do business this way with this system. We are going to get a patent for the way we do business so that no one can copy us." Isn't that a monopolistic tactic, suing someone because they have a similer ordering system. What's next... will someone be allowed to patent cash payments, or perhaps financing, or layaway. And the whole Etoys thing I don't understand how you can win an injunction against someone who was using a different name before your company even existed. Hey if someone breaks into your house steals a program that you've been working on and sells it for a million dollars, by all means sue the shit out of them. But don't think that just because you though of one way to do something no one should be allowed to do it another way.