[OT] Software patents for the obvious (and not so obvious)

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.8K blaze of typing glory, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Which is why, on my AppGen replacement system I am working on
> (coming along very nicely, thank you), I have abandoned any and
> all ideas of storing the "Program Definitions" in XML/XSL format.
> 
> Seems M$ has filed another patent for "data presentation/entry"
> in XML format ...

For the love of $DEITY. That patent won't hold up either.

Kurt
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I doubt, therefore I might be.