This software patent stuff must stop. Software patents should not be allowed.
Agreed! (And I'm a developer!)
A patent should cover the entire process, not part of it. If someone created Time Machine, CoverFlow, and Spotlight from the ground up and offered it for sale, someone stole it and then used it in their commercial product, fine. But this "Well, I made this and its similar to this so I'm suing" is ********.
If thats the case ANYONE who makes anything on a computer can be sued. I could be sued for making a game that uses a library that is similar to someone elses. Unreal.
I also don't agree with copyrighting parts of a name like that retard who copyrighted the word "Edge". That should not be allowed either, its a WORD in the english language, not a word that was created by the individual.