Copyrighting trivial code

[karl at osu-eddie.UUCP]

mark at mimsy.UUCP writes:

  >Well, my reading of this patent makes it pretty suspect.  It in fact
  >seems to patent any sort of thing which pops up on the screen when something
  >is pressed.

In the words of Robert A. Heinlein in _The_Door_Into_Summer_...
	"You claim the world and then wait for someone else to chip
	 away at it.  That's what patent lawyers are born for."
:-)
-- 
Karl