On: Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algor...

[stefanve]

That is freaking bizarre, curious about the follow up on this. I think someone is about to loos his job

[oiujhygtyhuji → stefanve]

No need - lying on a patent application is perjury.

And it's a federal court - remember not to drop the soap in the shower!

[prodigal_erik → oiujhygtyhuji]

This waste of carbon isn't worthy of scrubbing Knuth's toilet, and I'm all for drumming him out of tech for life. But our neglect of security in prisons isn't funny.

[jrockway → prodigal_erik]

But software patents are bad so this one guy deserves all the blame! Not his bosses who pressured him to do it, not the system that set up a framework for claiming ownership of ideas... no, this is all his fault, and it's worse than murder! Death penalty!!!

</sarcasm>

[prodigal_erik → jrockway]

Thank you, I hadn't noticed that Tandberg was not just some guy but a corporation laying the groundwork to engage in racketeering ("nice product you've got there...")

[palish → jrockway]

Stab him with parenthesis! Smash his fingers in a Turing machine!

[mahmud → palish]

Samurai swords are not cutlery. Reserve parenthesis for seppuku!

[pavlov → stefanve]

This guy is named as the inventor on the patent application: http://no.linkedin.com/pub/lars-petter-endresen/0/6ab/390