Good lesson for Europe! (Score 1)

Software patents suck. Now it's proven again. It only gives power to the rich. If I had created a small piece of software just to do something like a visual createroute about some years ago - not unimaginable as a usenet google-search on 'visual traceroute' showed messages dating back to 1991! - I might just run into trouble. When McAfee orders me to stop spreading my software, then I just have to obey. I don't have the funding to battle this patent, although I'd probably win the case. What's the invention anyhow regarding a visual traceroute. It's the result of very trivial thinking - just read back the messages on usenet. It just shows how insane software patents really are - again.