KSM runs into patent trouble

I think Mr. Monakhov would do well to quit looking at patent applications.

Without the publicity he's created this may never have become an issue. Certainly if you wanted to render just about any software unusable you could do so by researching all the potential patent conflicts and bring them to the attention of the programmers, forcing them to neuter their software to avoid "willful infringement."

As far as I'm concerned VMWare is the biggest pile of scumballs this side of NVIDIA so I have no doubt that they'll use this to maximize their own benefit. The biggest issue here (beyond the fact that the patent system is broken) is that well intentioned people should *not* be researching and advertising potential patent conflicts. Let the patent holders do their own homework, for Christ's sake!