Patents - Pathetic

[HavocXphere]

We now have a company scraping open source commit logs and patenting them.

Today, someone brought this patent application by Tandberg to my attention. It looked like a mildly interesting idea — and then I was hit with a freight train of deja vu.

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/589

Some people just aren't deserving of oxygen.

 

[stricken]

i hate paper pushers.

 

[fonoi]

This is the second one I have read about today, the other was on slashdot.

This is a horrible practice.

 

[tortured]

Cr@p like this should not be allowed, honestly wtf?