Adactio: Journal—United States Patent: 6,304,886

United States Patent: 6,304,886

This is the latest in a long line of ridiculously ludicrous software patents.

IBM has basically patented any kind of Content Management System. Actually, it isn’t even that specific. The patent is for:

"System and method for building a web site using specific interface".

The patent office must be run by a bunch of imbeciles who haven’t even bothered to research prior art.

This makes me so mad, I could spit.

Wednesday, October 17th, 2001 7:50pm

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