No great news here, but I need a new post to claim this Blog at Technorati.com

Patent Madness in the US is really frightening to me. There has been a new Patent issued to a small company name Balthaser Inc. which covers any kind of web bases Rich Client including Ajax based Technologies, Quote:

"The patent covers all rich media technology implementations including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax and XAML and all device footprints which access Rich-Media Internet Applications including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes and video game consoles. Balthaser will be able to provide licenses for almost any Rich-Media Internet Application across a broad range of devices and networks."

Well, great. So le'ts forget about Web 2.0, then. This is another shining example, why Software Patents do stop innovation and are an economic disaster. But still people are argueing that Software Patents are so nice and we need them to ensure economic growth and innovation.

Excuse my language, but I cannot resist calling "Bullshit!" here. Stop this Patent Madness! I pray we do not get the same patent laws as in the US here in Europe. Open Source Projects like Plone are actually jumping on the Ajax Bandwagon and we all know why. The Plone Foundation being sued by Balthaser Inc. because Plone 3.0 uses Ajax is not really something I would like to see.

I hope that the big Companies like Adobe, Google, Microsoft and Sun, which should be affected by the patent as well, will send all their Patent Lawyers out to get this straight.