[Mavrik]

EVERY software patent is bogus - companies rather waste time and money fighting each other over "link phone number to contact" patents instead of actually developing products.

Copyright is more than enough when it comes to protecting IP.

[technoslut]

I agree that software patents are BS but this article is more about Google than software patents.

Throughout this whole argument the only party I've felt sorry for are the indie devs. I couldn't care less that Google, who is playing by the patent war system, is not winning. Their major concern has not been the indie dev but themselves. Where are they on the Lodsys lawsuits? No one knows.

If Google is willing to play the game, don't cry because you're losing. Many will not have sympathy for a company that is worth hundreds of billions and controls a de facto monopoly on search.