Patents going mad, flying pigs grounded...

[azekeil]

Did you hear that someone is attempting to patent a storyline? It's an interesting case, because the people fighting software patents have been likening software to stories in an attempt to avoid patents. One guy takes this a step further (the third of the reader's letters), which I personally think is a fantastic idea for all those privacy advocates :)

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[tefkas.livejournal.com]

officialgaiman (Neil Gaiman, as in) mentioned this a few days back on his blog, and has apparently prodded http://scrivenerserror.blogspot.com/ into discussing it also.

Obviously, both from the literary side, rather than software patent side.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

So I see :)

I just ignore it as they're all insane anyway. But it did tickle me what that guy suggested doing, and the ramifications of it :)