re: apple legitimizes amazon patent tomfoolery

Mastah programmah John Carmack (his company, Id Software created Doom and the Quake series of PC Games) on software patents:

“The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.”

Check out the rest of the interview at VoodooExtreme.