Pablo Manuel Rizzo wrote:
That's ridiculous. A patent on that! Makes no sense.
Sense rarely comes into the realm of Intellectual Property rights.
And why should I care?
Because Google probably has better lawyers than you.
Duroty already have this functionallity, they say Duroty is the OpenSource Gmail, and they even have a Google-group.
The fact that another product has similar functionality doesn't mean anything, it could well be that they're infringing a patent as well.
Paul