[dathinab]

Due to the US patent amt granting all kind of patents which should never have been granted (due to e.g. priority art or triviality of the patent) it's basically impossible today to do anything in tech without braking patents.

For example one person patented the wheel and got the patent granted, or recently I found that some company on zooming in and out on a graph or automatically shutting down computers when they are not used.

Normally large tech companies don't use any of this patents, it's not in their interest to make it obvious how broken the patent system is. But the problem starts once a company starts to fall and now tries to make money no matter what. Or this patents are bought up by patent trolls.