nightsurge on 02 July 2009
Seriously, if you want to patent something, it should be required that you have a working prototype that does specifically what you claim in your patent. Sure it's great to protect an idea, but I can think of an idea for millions of things that I'm sure other people have also thought of. Anyone can think of an idea, patents should only protect those who are actually trying to use that idea.
If these guys had working software to do this, then by all means they are in the right, but if they just patented the idea, then I hope they get sued by someone else the day after they settle with MS.
