The Failed Experiment of Software Patents

A friend-of-a-friend said, upon receiving pat # 4,956,809 ("Method for canonical ordering of binary data for portable operating systems") said "I can't believe they gave it to me." 1982, though, so this one is no longer a concern.

There's nothing more I can add except outrage.

Is he really named "Cockburn" ? geez... Maybe this is why he is out of his mind: it hurts.