United States Patent: 6,812,994
6 named inventors. My boss, his boss, the head of the whole department, the guy from Corporate Design and Usability who we had to fight with over the gui design, the other coder who did the main shell of the gui, and me, the guy who did all the fun stuff – database design and implementation, custom widgets, support programs, etc.
I feel both proud and unclean.
I’m both impressed and disappointed, for much the same reasons.
It’s the same old story: all commercial software is an evil tool of capitalism, apart from the software I’m selling….
Being the only guy to not want his name on the patent is like being the only guy who washes his hands at the slaughterhouse. It’s too bad the patent system is like it is, but it is, and there’s no fixing to be done on such a small scale.