__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Thursday 16 November 2006 19:07 \__
> ".. Sonic Solutions® .. today announced that it has filed suit
> against .. Nero AG .. for infringement of one of Sonic's video editing
> patents .. the patent covers improved ways to create digital videos
> using a graphical "storyline" to sequence individual video segments"
*Yawn*
With all these fundamental patents, one wonders how many will intersect in
one way or another. How the heck can a programmer begin writing a single
line of code when there's a pile of hundreds of thousands or patents all
over the world. Are these searchable at all? And if so, should a programmer
assume literature to be part of his/her job?
Who was the wise guy who equated this to nuclear war that uses threats as a
mutual weapon? In this case, on the contrary, it's a toothless tiger, not a
nuke.
> http://8LN.org/$8eb
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