Kirb’s Musings

Kirby Witmer’s ponderings, ruminations, and meditations of… anything.

Here is an excerpt from an interesting and somewhat amusing post I found today regarding the Verizon versus Vonage patent dispute.

……the problem in these kinds of cases is that no one has the foggiest idea what the patents cover. So when a judge rules that your current product infringes some patent, you respond by re-configuring aspects of your product at random in the hopes that you can convince the judge that the new configuration does not infringe your adversary’s “technology.” ………..determining whether a product infringes a patent in the software industry is about as scientific as reading tea leaves. The main difference is that, you usually don’t have to pay $600 million when you mis-read tea leaves.

Maybe I’m blind, but if you compose a new message in G-mail, I can’t find a print button anywhere to print it. Its annoying. Only after saving the draft, clicking on your inbox, then reopening the saved draft, will you have an option to print it. W.e.i.r.d.