10/03/2004 11:18:00 AM

Kodak wins Java lawsuit
via /.

more out of control patent enforcement. who will put an end to this by spearheading a more nuanced U.S. patent regime? inventing a combustion engine is totally different from inventing "one-click shopping," "linked documents" or a piece of byte code "asking for help" from a runtime engine.

in other news:

60% of Google's 1900 employees now hold stock options worth at least one million dollars.