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WWell, it's less obvious than a light switch...WWell, it's less obvious than a light switch...Posted Apr 21, 2006 15:21 UTC (Fri) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270)In reply to: Write Free Software, Pay $203,000 to Patent Holder (Right to Create) by Junior_Samples Parent article: Write Free Software, Pay $203,000 to Patent Holder (Right to Create)
In fairness, the patent is much narrower than "controlling a model railroad" and goes specifically to how the communications and software are organized. Note that the letter they sent to JMRI specifically pointed out a way the JMRI software could be rearchitected to not overlap the patent while still performing the same function.
It's still probably too broad and obvious, but it's not as obvious as a light switch. The Description section of the patent has a reasonably readable overview of what problem it's trying to solve and how it solves it (but it does manage to misspell CORBA as Cobra).
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