What's next? Patenting money?

[alexpgp]

From a post at Slashdot:

Sun Files For Patent on Software Licensing Method

[...] The pricing patent application was summarized: 'Method for licensing software to an entity, including determining a per-employee cost for the software, determining a number of employees of the entity, and determining a total licensing cost using the number of employees and the per-employee cost, wherein the total licensing cost comprises a software license for all employees of the entity and all customers of the entity.' [...]

So, now we're patenting marketing techniques? Heck, at least Amazon's bogus "one-click shopping" patent relied on the use of a mouse and a computer.

Ye gods.

Cheers...

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that "patent" could also be extended to cover all grade-school math ;)