On 12/29/06, Paul Waring paul@xk7.net wrote:
Pablo Manuel Rizzo wrote:
That's ridiculous. A patent on that! Makes no sense.
Sense rarely comes into the realm of Intellectual Property rights.
Sure
And why should I care?
Because Google probably has better lawyers than you.
Software patents does not exists in my country and the same is valid for many other countries around the world. If software patents are legal in some country and the patent exists, that feature could be disabled for that countries, but *only* after Google complaints. Conversation grouping could be an installable module.
That's why I don't care. Software patents should not stop Free Software developers :-)